Sharon Ya'ari: Officers' Pool

Artist Sharon Ya’ari uses photography as a means of “visual thinking” in order to explore nature, architecture, politics, society and history. Non-spaces and places of lost utopias are confronting each other in the new works of Sharon Ya’ari who takes his photographs only in Israel where he lives and grew up.

The exhibition comprises blow-ups of slides from the late 1960s that have lost and changed their colours over time.
These “found-footage” pictures were taken by soldiers and amateur photographers in the north of Israel and were used as teaching materials for didactic lectures.

in the second part of the exhibition, the dusty faded, yellow tint of the photographs contrasts with the works displayed in the first part. Sharon Ya’ari has taken these images in the past two years in the southern part of the country along the main road that leads to the Egyptian border.

The series of red photographs moves on a visual time axis from the present into the past while the second part of the exhibition directs our gaze towards the current, deadlocked situation without offering an outlook into the future.