Guy Raz | Cabinets of Wonder in Contemporary Art

Curators: Dalia Levin, Daria Kaufmann and Ghila Limon
Sep. 8, 2012 - Dec. 29, 2012

Born in Israel, 1964

Wadi Es Sidr, 1992-1997, photographs

Guy Raz began photographing the series Wadi Sidr while still a student, when he returned to the Valley of Jezreel to capture the landscapes surrounding the kibbutz he grew up on, Kevutzat Geva. Wadi Sidr lies in the area between the former Arab village Qumi (today Kibbutz Ein Harod), Khirbet Kara, and the Kfar Yehezkel cemetery. The wadi is named after the fruit of the jujube tree (sidr in Arabic), which resembles small apples, and which was regularly eaten by Raz when he played in the shade of the jujube trees in summer. When the artist return to the kibbutz following his military service, the jujube fruit was transformed into the fruit of the tree of knowledge: Raz discovered that the kibbutz members had transformed the beautiful wadi into a garbage dump.

Guy Raz

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