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Klappentext Israel¿s history can be understood through its vast archaeological heritage. Its past exists not onlyin the written word but also in its land, in the architecture and ruins, in the stones themselves. Eachcivilization overwrites another, layer upon layer ¿ a sophisticated palimpsest.A single frame can expose the sediment of thousands of years. The recycling of spaces, from oneempire to the next, shows how each sought to conquer and rule the land, all with a similar outcome:eventual failure. Kremer shows the vestiges of this complex multicultural saga, testimonies unearthedfrom the past that show a different perspective. It is landscape as a place of amnesia and erasure, forIsrael is a strategic site where the past has been buried and history veiled by natural beauty.Kremer¿s Israel exists beyond the media headlines and tourist hotspots: it is landscape as culturalforce, an instrument in the construction of national and social identity. For Kremer, it is a provocationto critical debate about a country where different perspectives existed, and continue to exist, andwhere new possibilities can be reflected upon.Born in 1974 and raised in Israel, Shai Kremer currently lives in Tel Aviv and New York. He has exhibitedwidely internationally: the Tate Modern, London; The Metropolitan Museum of Art , New York;SF MoMA, San Francisco; Chicago Museum of Contemporary Photography; Tel Aviv Museum of Art;The Israel Museum, Jerusalem; the Red Cross Red Crescent Museum, Geneva; Guangzhou PhotoBiennale, China; Omotesando Gallery, Tokyo ; Vittoriano Art Museum, Rome; PHotoEspaña, Madrid.His work is included in museum collections such as The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York;SF MoMA, San Francisco; the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; the Israel Museum, Jerusalem and theTel Aviv Museum of Art, amongst others.
