The Robert Koch Gallery is presenting an exhibition of images by Shai Kremer: Broken Promised Land, a selection of large-scale color photographs of Israeli landscape transformed by military occupation.
Shai Kremer's transfixing compositions explore contested territory throughout Israel. In this region, conflict has left an indelible imprint on the land and on the psyche of its inhabitants. The ominously still images of decommissioned fighter planes used for target practice, eerie mock-ups of Arab villages erected for combat training, and walls and fences built to divide and break up the country, are all artificial structures imposed upon the land; they represent scars that are a constant reminder of active and unresolved strife. The exhibition will be on display until May 31st.
Shai Kremer's transfixing compositions explore contested territory throughout Israel. In this region, conflict has left an indelible imprint on the land and on the psyche of its inhabitants. The ominously still images of decommissioned fighter planes used for target practice, eerie mock-ups of Arab villages erected for combat training, and walls and fences built to divide and break up the country, are all artificial structures imposed upon the land; they represent scars that are a constant reminder of active and unresolved strife. The exhibition will be on display until May 31st.
Photograph by Shai KremerFormer Ground Force Training Zone,
next to Tze'elim, Israel, 2007
© 2007 Shai Kremer
Courtesy Robert Koch Gallery, San Francisco
Photograph by Shai KremerUrban Warfare Training Center,
Panorama, Tze'elim, Israel, 2007
© 2007 Shai Kremer
Courtesy Robert Koch Gallery, San Francisco
Photograph by Shai KremerEdge, 'Chicago' Ground Force Training Zone
Israel, 2007
© 2007 Shai Kremer
Courtesy Robert Koch Gallery, San Francisco
Photograph by Shai KremerPlanes, Air Force training targets,
Big Rivers Nature Reserve, Israel, 2007
© 2007 Shai Kremer
Courtesy Robert Koch Gallery, San Francisco
Photograph by Shai KremerSkyhawk, Air Force training targets
Big Rivers Nature Reserve, Israel, 2007
© 2007 Shai Kremer
courtesy Robert Koch Gallery, San Francisco
Shai Kremer was born in Israel and lives in Tel Aviv and New York. His photographs are included in the collections of the Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, the Chapman Museum, New York, Harvard University, Boston, the Contemporary Art Museum, Tel Aviv, and the Israel Art Museum, Jerusalem. His work has been featured in group and solo exhibitions throughout the United States, Europe, the Middle East, and Asia.
A publication of this body of work, Infected Landscape: Israel, Broken Promised Land, will be released in September 2008 by Dewi Lewis Publishing.
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Shai Kremer: Broken Promised Land
April 3 - May 31, 2008
Robert Koch Gallery
49 Geary Street, 5th Floor
San Francisco, CA 94108
(415) 421-0122
Gallery Hours: Tuesday - Saturday 10:30-5:30 pm
For additional information contact the gallery
or visit their website: Robert Koch Gallery.
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