Schneider Gallery  Contemporary Photography in Chicago's River North
Hayarkon Park The City of David Water Spark Yamit Mount Hermon Dead-Sea Hyatt Hotel
Orit Siman-Tov


My work explores contemporary Israeli life as seen through public leisure sites and their inhabitants. The photographs depict public parks, swimming pools, hotels, shopping malls, archeological sites, and national parks. The vivid color photographs document two different tensions: the interrelationships between the site and the visitors, and the interplay between the universal Western settings and the particular Israeli settings. I am especially interested in showing how these sites were planned to appeal to Israeli visitors by being universal, which, in this context means both Western and lacking any Israeli particularity. These sites and visitors could be found everywhere and anywhere. Nevertheless, in each photograph there is a trace that betrays its Israeli particularity.
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