"Between Us". A Moving Exhibition at Café Zarah
- Chris McMillan
- May 3, 2025
- 1 min read
The Beijinger
30th April 2025
"Between Us". A Moving Exhibition at Café Zarah
By Ana Padilla Fornieles
Mental health matters, and we’re very fortunate to live in a time where this statement is increasingly acknowledged worldwide. Statistics from the WHO point out that in 2019, a staggering 970 million people globally were living with a mental disorder, with anxiety and depression the most common. Addressing the global challenge of mental health is in our best interest.
That’s why today’s story feels so important to me. The exhibition “Between Us – When Words Are Not Enough,” by Julia Hofmann and Lina Zhang, is currently gracing the walls of Café Zarah until Jun 4. It is perhaps the most special collection that the venue has hosted up till now. Hofmann is a photographer, as well as Zarah’s founder. “Between Us” is a project woven in collaboration with her daughter Lina, who contributed her own paintings. Hofmann felt great distress and unease at the sight of Zhang’s incipient signs of anxiety and depression in her preteen years. In the ongoing journey that soon ensued,
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