Private View: Alona Nelly Cohen [SHOW NOTES]
Tue 21 Apr
|Ein Sof Gallery
Ein Sof Gallery relaunches with [SHOW NOTES], a solo exhibition focussing on the intimate sketchbook and development process of the first collection of Alona Nelly Cohen.
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Time & Location
21 Apr 2026, 19:30 – 21:30
Ein Sof Gallery, 1-3 Elliott's Pl, London N1 8HX, UK
About the event
Alona’s garments, accessories, prints and paperwork centre sustainability through the revival of traditional Sephardic craftsmanship and celebration of the plurality of the Jewish diaspora. Her work aims to revive the worlds of Amazigh Jews in the Middle East and North Africa, and identifies the risk of these worlds fading into the past.
The artist’s upbringing is filled with stories of Sephardic Jews who continued to weave, embroider, and craft jewellery despite their displacement and exile. Her research and camera roll is full of stories of Jewish craftsmen and merchants, jewellery of Sephardi women, painted Ketubot and many other objects.
Within the traditions of Sephardic and Mizrahi communities, textiles carry memory, ritual, and identity across generations. They hold tales of connections between communities, and of sweetness and resilience within Jewish ones. For her, these stories are the ultimate carriers of hope. Many of the painted motifs in her collection…
