Prescription Time

by Jenny Andersen and Mohamed Jabaly

28. May to 6. June 2021

To heal from a traumatic event requires a strong will to survive and to overcome, a compassionate and caring community, as well as therapy and time. For Jenny Andersen who survived the terrorist attack on Utøya in 2011, and Mohamed Jabaly, a Palestinian who has lived through three wars and experienced the violent attacks on Gaza, time and art has played an integral part in the process of healing.

In 2016, Small Projects hosted their exhibition “What it Feels Like”, the first public presentation of their project which focused on how it is to live with the trauma of war and terror. In this latest instalment, “Prescription Time”, they are asking whether there is any truth to the saying: “Time heals everything.

Jenny Andersen was born in Trondheim and presently based in Tromsø. She is a filmmaker and a graduate of the Norwegian School of Photography in Trondheim where she specialised in doc-photo. She was the recepient of the 2019 Sparebankstiftelsens (Sparebank foundation) talent stipend.

Mohamed Jabaly is a Palestinian filmmaker and artist from Gaza and presently based in Norway. His first documentary feature film “Ambulance” has been included in several important film festivals such as, the IDFA, Sheffield and CPH:DOX in Copenhagen. He has won several awards including the “One World Media” as Best Feature Documentary, BAFTA, London (2017) and the BBC Arabic Young Journalist Award. He is a graduate of the Moving Images from Nordland Film and Art College.