Roi Kuper
Deserted army camps become local archeological sites within a culture that invests heavily in training, defense, and war. Abandoned constructions become monuments which exploit the environment, leaving in their wake decay and ruins.
This archeological journey parallels with research conducted within a diversity of areas such as: investigations into unresolved crimes, a pathological post-mortem of remains, sociological and anthropological findings. This offers testimony to a specific culture and time, and a metaphysical exploration of the mythical importance of the army within Israeli society.
Kuper exposes artificial and natural architecture that is functional and dysfunctional, spacious and confined, calculated and abandoned. A new aesthetic emerges from a nomadic reality which leaves concrete shadows of a disturbing nature.
Selections from Necropolis, 1996-2000 (B&W prints 126 x 126 cm. / 50 x 50 cm.)
Born in 1956, Israeli photographer Roi Kuper has been working since the mid 1980′s, philosophically exploring the nature of photography.
http://roikuper.com/