CAREN GARFEN

losing faith, 2025

invited - National holocaust museum uk 2025

Losing Faith focuses on synagogues desecrated worldwide from the 20th century to the present day. As targets of hate crimes, these sacred spaces have been defaced with antisemitic and anti-Israel graffiti, daubed with swastikas, and subjected to arson. Prayer books and sacred Torah scrolls have been destroyed; interiors defiled with excrement and paint. In some cases, Jewish worshippers have been injured or murdered in these attacks.

Measurement: 200cm x 23cm x 4cm

Process: Hand stitch

Materials: Cotton, silk threads, vintage ophthalmic lenses, vintage and pre-war prayer books

Exhibited in:

Fabricated? Solo Exhibition, National Holocaust Museum, Laxton, Nottinghamshire (12 October - mid-December 2025)

comments

• Another sad, powerful and elegant piece

• Your work is so sensitive and so important

• You highlight this topic in a brilliant way

• Heartbreaking

• It is sad that so many people have to suffer due to misinformation in reporting, terrorism is a threat all over the world

• Great title, terribly sad content, always eloquent treatment

• I wonder at the mentality of people who set out to harm others, what makes them tick?

• So painful

• Always impressed by your art and your bravery and your honesty

• Shameful, cruel and barbaric behaviours and blind ignorance of history will doom us all

• Thank you for being a warrior for the truth

• Haunting