Smoking Gun

Smoking Gun

“The relation between what we see and what we know is never settled.“

― John Berger, Ways of Seeing

Solo exhibition of the conceptual photographer, Shai Kremer. The exhibition contains nine large scale colour photographs from the series “Infected Landscape”, Concrete Abstract” and “Perception”. The fabric of works refers to concepts of looking, and to the humane perception and interpretation of the surrounding territory.

The works portray wounded scenes, which may look as alluring nature photographs, but are actually the result of a conflictual reality in Israel and New York. These are testimonies, embodied in the environment, of the post traumatic encounter of culture and nature.

One work in the exhibition, of a dark smoke column rising up over a clean background, is asking about the allusiveness of the image. It challenges the viewer to shift into a different perspective on what is presented in this exhibition: the subconscious' effect each one of our psychology, that may determine our interpretation of what's within our sight. This powerful insight can be applied to the entire exhibition, as well as to the medium of photography and our ways of seeing.