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Sharon Ya’ari // Rashi Street
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  Sharon Ya'ari Born (1966) and lives in Israel. Recent solo exhibitions: Lisson Gallery, London (2002), Sommer Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv (2002), ARCO, Madrid (2002), Tel Aviv Museum of Art (2006); recent group exhibitions: Jewish Museum, New York (2007), MARCO Vigo, Spain (2007), The Israel Museum, Jerusalem (2008), Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art (2008).

Sharon Ya’ari’s photographic series is concerned with the demolition of a three-story residential building on a small street in the center of Tel Aviv. A cloud of white dust rises and envelops both people and objects, causing them to vanish from the surface of the image. Ya’ari’s work is metaphorically related to “post-traumatic experience” and politics. He photographs seemingly mundane scenes throughout the country, on the suburban fringes of cities, and his works are composed with a painter’s sensibility for framing devices. His photographs capture ephemeral moments, in-between spaces suspended between what was left behind and what has yet to come. This series of photographs focuses on ways of seeing, and on the relationship between center and periphery.