10 Manot, untitled #02 - Limited Edition of 5 Photograph

Orit Ishay 10 Manot #02, 2012 Archival pigment print 30x40 cm. numbered and signed Edition: 5 +1AP In a state where everything is rapidly privatized, rapidly changing, old Moshav’s* houses are destroyed and rebuilt, without leaving any trace of their former history. The series portrays those houses’ visibility, a moment before their final ruin in favor of new luxurious villas, under the current ostentatious, squandering and neoliberal climate. Public resources, natural as well as economic, are recklessly exploited while more and more farmlands are expropriated, without any thought of tomorrow. * Moshav is a type of Israeli town or settlement, in particular a type of cooperative agricultural community of individual farms, with an emphasis on community labor