Overview
- The exhibition opened in East London for a six-week run and recreates the Nova Music Festival site using original stage structures, vehicles and items recovered from the scene.
- The October 7, 2023 attack on the open-air festival is widely attributed to Hamas and is reported to have killed more than 400 people, wounded many others and resulted in dozens taken hostage.
- Organisers say the show has been presented in multiple cities and has drawn more than 600,000 visitors worldwide, turning the festival site into an immersive public memorial.
- Eyewitness testimony displayed in the exhibition includes accounts of explosions and mass panic from festival staff, and it highlights individual losses such as British musician Jake Marlowe who was killed while working security.
- Coverage of the exhibition ranges from straightforward reporting of the memorial to polemic commentary that uses the display to criticise cultural responses to the wider Israel–Gaza conflict, and Gaza health authorities’ casualty figures since the escalation are cited in some reports.