Sharon Ya’ari • Color Works

Color Works

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*Mother and Daughter*, 2000
160 × 126 cm

*Iris Hill, Southwestern View*, 2000
126 × 160 cm

*Iris Hill, Southeastern View*, 2000
126 × 160 cm

*Tennis, Radomsko*, Poland, 2002
126 × 160 cm

*Sebastian, Wrocław*, Poland, 2002
126 × 160 cm

*TLV (Old Fairgrounds)*, 2001
126 × 142 cm

*Waves*, Lchish, Asdod, 1999
114 × 148 cm

This period saw the consolidation of a central body of work composed of color photographs created with a 4/5 camera. Most images were taken in Israel, with a small subset taken while I conducted research in Poland and Lithuania. The places I chose to photograph are devoid of the recognizable and predictable historical baggage. They are not memorial sites, battle zones, tourist sites, holy sites, etc. Rather, they are places in which routine, marginal, temporal and ephemeral human activity occurs. Short cuts, improvised paths created by those who trod along them, construction sites of suspended projects. The surrounding environment is a platform for human activity that is esoteric, everyday, or tied to leisure time spent outside the home; for private routines that nevertheless impact and shape the public sphere.

The photographed event is always minor and the central action described is an observation that involves the duration of a wait time and exposes layers of fragile human reality, a threatened and vulnerable existence.

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Color Works

Mother and Daughter, 2000

Asphalt, 2000

Cypresses, 2001

Cars 2/3, 2000

Cars 3/2, 2000

Sderot (page 4), 1999

Iris Hill, Southwestern View, 2000

Iris Hill, Southeastern View, 2000

Polish Tent, 2001

Tent, 2001

Accident, Dimona, 1999

Beit Guvrin, 1999

South (Cricket), 2001

Dust, Atlit, 2001

Tennis, Radomsko, Poland, 2002

Sebastian, Wrocław, Poland, 2002

Dobrodzien, Poland, 2001

Zoo, 2001

TLV (Old Fairgrounds), 2001

Chairs, 2001

Freeway, 2001

Elephant, 2000

Waves, Lchish, Asdod, 1999

Wet Blue Strip, 2000

Mitspe Ramon, 1999

Home, 2000

Forest, Tel Aviv, 2001