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• Auction House:
  Bonhams Australia
• Sale Name:
  Sherman | 100
• Sale Date:
  11 May 2022 ~ 5pm (AEST)
• Lot #:
  50
• Lot Description:
  Adi Nes
  (Israeli, born 1965)
  Untitled, from the series 'Vogue' (#5), 2003
  type C photograph
  123.0 x 168.5cm (48 7/16 x 66 5/16in).
• Provenance:
  The Gene & Brian Sherman Collection, Sydney
• Exhibited:
  Between Promise and Possibility: The Photographs of Adi Nes, Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco Legion of Honor, California, 13 March 2004- 18 July 2004; Adi Nes: Photographs, The Leon Constantiner Prize for Photography, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Israel, 12 August 2003- 20 March 2004
• References:
  Nili Goren, Adi Nes: Photographs, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, 2004, p. 38, pl. 14 (illus.)
• Notes:
  'Adi Nes' provocative photomedia work subverts viewer expectations and, without background information, defies expectations. The controversial wall built to protect Israeli citizens from what had become incessant acts of violence against innocent civilians – seen, of course, by Palestinians as a concrete barrier to their perceived rights as the country's sole indigenous group – is in this particular image de-politicised. The protagonists, presented in a deliberately ambiguous industrialised setting, comprises a mixed group of Jewish and Arab male models, showcasing street fashion in and for a Vogue magazine shoot. Photographed before the wall, either as a symbol or simply a backdrop, the models from both sides of the divide look ethnically interchangeable – as in real life they truly are. Go figure. Dr Gene Sherman
• Estimate:
  A$4,000 - 6,000
• Realised Price:
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• Category:
  Art

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