Sharon Ya’ari • Lawns

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*Al-Turo Grass No. 3*, 1997
130 × 160 cm

*Al-Turo Grass No. 4,*, 1997
130 × 160 cm

*Super Al-Turo Grass*, 1997
130 × 160 cm

Industrial grass lawns are the focus of a series of photographs begun in 1997. Each photograph displays a grass variety designed for a different environment and use. The series documents the bourgeoisification of the ideal image of green space in the local Zionist narrative: as the goal of ‘making the desert bloom’ is realized, the utopian, productive and socialist ideals are commodified.

These works were photographed in a 4×5 format and were reproduced as 130/150cm prints. Alongside them were exhibited studio photographs of detached strips of lawn, each of a different grass variety, which serves as a kind of index to the landscape images of meadows.

Lawns

Lawns

Al-Turo Grass No. 3, 1997

Kikuyu Grass, 1997

Al-Turo Grass No. 4,, 1997

Super Al-Turo Grass, 1997

Al-Turo Grass, 80 x 122 cm

Al-Turo Grass, 82 x 120 cm

Darben Grass, 82 x 120 cm

Kikuyu Grass, 82 x 120 cm

Super Al-Turo Grass, 80 x 122 cm

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