Still Life City

The work is intimately connected to my personal memories and evolve from a return to the sites of my childhood. They embody an attempt to produce alternative representations of a city, whose iconography has been exhausted by tourists and journalists alike. I explore the cacophony of “voice-overs” that are projected onto Jerusalem and probes the representation of a city that exists in a fragile tension. Caught between a construction ban and accumulating graveyards, Jerusalem gradually collapses under strata of ideals, ideologies and mortality. The large photograph of Jerusalem is held in slowly disintegrating ice. The frozen panel explores the relationship between still and moving image (photography combined with video  and captures the somber reality of a city under occupation. I attempt to comment on the stagnant present of Jerusalem, by focusing on its few remaining arteries of life. Hidden in the scene are the simultaneous activities of a trail of tourists and the work of bulldozers.