The Florida Museum of Photographic Arts presents “Infected Landscape: Works by Shai Kremer.” Open through July 17, 2010.

Anyone who says the earth cannot speak has never listened. Early humans felt that gods resided within trees and on mountain tops. They believed that if anyone damaged the trees and earth, the gods would unleash their holy wrath. Turns out, our ancestors were right. Look at Shai Kremer’s landscapes of the Holy Land and notice how thousands of years of warfare have corroded the vistas and scarred the soil.

The Separation Wall, Jerusalem 2005 (c) Shai Kremer. Courtesy of the artist and Julie Saul Gallery New York

The Israeli-born Kremer calls this terrain “Infected Landscape” with reason. To see this territory in dispute between Israelis and Palestinians is to see what that holy wrath has wrought. But for Kremer, the scarred landscape is a stand-in for the physiological trauma of everyone who lives there. – Joanne Milani, FMoPA Curator.

Exhibition Sponsored By
Nina and Burton Berstein; Fraser and Maria Himes; Jane Levin and Robert Lynn; Charles Schwab, Inc.; and Linda Saul-Sena and Mark Sena with contributions by Maureen and Douglas Cohn and Blossom Liebowitz

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