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Adam Broomberg and Oliver Chanarin www.formatfestival.com/broombergChanarin.htmlAs part of FORMAT06, Chicago by Adam Broomberg and Oliver Chanarin will be exhibited at Q Arts, gallery.
The invasion of Beirut in the 1982: the first and second Intifada: the Gaza withdrawal; an attempted assassination of Saddam Hussein; the Battle of Falluja. Almost every one of Israel’s major military tactics in the mid-East region over the past three decades was performed in advance in Chicago, an artificial but highly realistic Arab town built by the Israeli Defense Force for urban combat training. Chicago stands in the middle of the Negev desert. It is a ghost town whose history directly mirrors the story of the Palestinian conflict.
Chicago, by Adam Broomberg and Oliver Chanarin, is a highly original, visual analysis of contemporary Israel. Nothing is as it seems. A watermelon is revealed to be a suicide bomb; a tranquil forest becomes the site of a forensic investigation; a snipers lair suggests a national neurosis. The exhibition also includes Mini Israel, a film that explores an automated model of Israel, originally built as a tourist attraction. Mini Israel offers an unnervingly deep (and at times uncomfortably amusing) insight into a vision of a utopian Israel - in stark contrast to the current global political climate.
Broomberg and Chanarin have exhibited and published internationally including; TRUST (2000), GHETTO (2003) and MR MKHIZE'S PORTRAIT (2004) which documented South Africa ten years after apartheid. Their next book, ‘Chicago’, will be published by SteidlMack in November 2006.
For more information on Adam and Oliver's work please go to www.choppedliver.info or www.billcharles.com
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