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21/11/2001

Necropolis

Andrew Mummery Gallery, London

Gilad Ophir & Roi Kuper

Between 1996 and 2000 the Israeli photographers Gilad Ophir and Roi Kuper worked together on a project entitled Necropolis.

Deserted army camps become local archeological sites within a culture that invests heavily in training, defense and war. Abandoned constructions become monuments that exploit the environment, leaving in their wake, decay and ruins.

This archaeological 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 which offer testimony to a specific culture and time, and metaphysical exploration of what is perhaps the quintessential myth within Israeli society: the army.

Ophir and Kuper expose 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.

The exhibition is held with the support of the Embassy of Israel in the United Kingdom

Roi Kuper was born in Israel in 1956. Gilad Opir was born in Tel Aviv in 1957. Their joint series of work, Necropolis, has been exhibited in Israel and the United States. A selection of images from the series, which forms part of the Tate's permanent collection, is on exhibition at Tate Modern until 2002. Both artists now work independently.

Open: Tue-Sat, 11am-6pm

For further information, please contact Andrew Mummery or Thom Driver on telephone: 020 7251 6265

Andrew Mummery Gallery
63 Compton Street, London EC1V 0BN
Tel: +44 (0)20 7251 6265
Fax: +44 (0)20 7251 5545

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