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Adi Nes (Israeli, born 1965)
type C photograph
123.0 x 168.5cm (48 7/16 x 66 5/16in).
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PROVENANCE
The Gene & Brian Sherman Collection, Sydney
EXHIBITED
Between Promise and Possibility: The Photographs of Adi Nes, Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco Legion of Honor, California, 13 March 2004- 18 July 2004
Adi Nes: Photographs, The Leon Constantiner Prize for Photography, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Israel, 12 August 2003- 20 March 2004
LITERATURE
Nili Goren, Adi Nes: Photographs, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, 2004, p. 38, pl. 14 (illus.)
'Adi Nes' provocative photomedia work subverts viewer expectations
and, without background information, defies expectations.
The controversial wall built to protect Israeli citizens from what had
become incessant acts of violence against innocent civilians – seen, of
course, by Palestinians as a concrete barrier to their perceived rights
as the country's sole indigenous group – is in this particular image
de-politicised.
The protagonists, presented in a deliberately ambiguous industrialised
setting, comprises a mixed group of Jewish and Arab male
models, showcasing street fashion in and for a Vogue magazine
shoot. Photographed before the wall, either as a symbol or simply a
backdrop, the models from both sides of the divide look ethnically
interchangeable – as in real life they truly are. Go figure.
Dr Gene Sherman
























