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Location: Julie M. Gallery
Where past series by Shai Kremer disclosed the trauma of militarization and empire on Israels landscape, Work in Progress presents two ongoing cycles of work from New York City: Notes from the Edges was born when Kremer immigrated to the United States in 2002, while the World Trade Center Concrete Abstracts are comparatively nascent. Each Concrete Abstract is a palimpsest layering Kremers photographs of reconstruction taken since the bombing at the site of the World Trade Center. By moderating the opacity of varied photographs, he condenses time, space and sociopolitical referents into massive abstract visuals. This new series recalls the epic scale of Andreas Gursky, the critical urgency of Edward Burtynsky, and the innovation of Idris Khan. It has merited Kremer a nomination for the Guggenheim Fellowship. Shai Kremers critical exploration of progress and capitalism is two-fold: the World Trade Center series undertakes a sustained excavation of the rising Freedom Tower (the charred but beating heart of New York), while Notes from the Edges zooms out to expose the detritus of late capitalism afloat in the wake of a dazzling global mirage of Manhattan. Notes from the Edges include unsettling portraits of Manhattans skyline shot from the citys derelict fringes. They destabilize our iconic image of New York, the financial center of the world, through abrasive juxtaposition of growth and neglect.
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