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NO MANS LAND

 Multi exposure Photo series & Video - Israel |2024 

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“Nothing is ever erased in the field; there is only accumulation.”

Moshe kupferman

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A Land, any land in the world, will always tell a story. A land that has been introduced to humans will always be loaded with contacts throw-out the linear time line of its existence. The ground, the earth, the soil, represents the preservation vessel for layered narratives that are being piled up as time goes by. When facing a silent new territory, a territory that hints and whispers cluse about its past, one might wonder on their approach to how should they read this space. Are they allowed to read the space independently? are they allowed to neglect the historical past that created the current scenery? can they enter the space knowing nothing about it?  is it ethical to un preserve the past? or is it needed to neglect narratives in order to create new ones? No Mans land is a Photo series and video created in an abandon area in the north of Israel. This territory holds stories about Israel and the neighboring country. when I first came across this place I chose not to know. I chose to read the area, the field, the abandon structures with my own subjective point of view. And so, I refer to this territory as an abandon piratic enclave that consist on land. By reading it my way am claiming it. By returning to this “No Mans Land” I create another narrative, a personal one, that is being influenced and moved not by knowledge but by physical emotional pure reaction to space. This I capture with in this ongoing work.

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"The space in which we live, through which we are drawn outside ourselves, in which precisely the wearing-away of our lives takes place, in which our time and our history are consumed, this space that gnaws at us and hollows us out, is itself a heterogeneous space. In other words, we do not live in a kind of void within which individuals or things can be located. We do not live inside an emptiness that could simply be tinted with different sparks of light; we live within a web of relations that delineates positions which cannot be superimposed upon one another, and which, in no way whatsoever, can be made to overlap."

          from "HETROTOPIA" by Michel Foucault

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