Displace

This work follows a new chapter in my ongoing quest for legitimacy in the occupying and representation of land. I begin to survey the English landscape, becoming familiar with the island’s geography — an outsider in the act of mapping and marking territory that refers to imperial and colonial histories.

The rural walk is a well-known English cultural practice. Though it may be civil, the act of walking itself is rooted in an ideology from my own cultural background. It is an Israeli idea that to walk the land is to know the land, and knowing the land suggests belonging, entitlement and even ownership.

Inspired by Romantic paintings, I appropriate the rules of the picturesque image, traditionally used to create an illusion of natural and social harmony. I subvert these notions by repeatedly constructing my work to emphasize my outsider position within the English countryside. A place where land ownership and social hierarchy have shaped the form and perception of the landscape for centuries.

With the use of a large format camera, I carefully construct the scenes and pay forensic attention to details. I use dramatic light conditions and on-site interventions to provoke ambiguous feelings of seduction and alienation; inviting a slow and perhaps dubious reading of landscape.

© Roei Greenberg - Walk To Paradise Garden (After W. Eugine Smith)
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Walk To Paradise Garden (After W. Eugine Smith)

© Roei Greenberg - "A Species of Rich Distance" (After Gilpin)
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"A Species of Rich Distance" (After Gilpin)

© Roei Greenberg - Act of Mapping #1 (Fruitful Intervention)
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Act of Mapping #1 (Fruitful Intervention)

© Roei Greenberg - Winter Morning
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Winter Morning

© Roei Greenberg - "Dreaming of Misty England"
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"Dreaming of Misty England"

© Roei Greenberg - Guardian
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Guardian

© Roei Greenberg - Spectre of innocent Death
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Spectre of innocent Death

© Roei Greenberg - Landscape with Oaks and Hunter (After Friedrich)
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Landscape with Oaks and Hunter (After Friedrich)

© Roei Greenberg - Conflicting Interests (Autumn Leaves)
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Conflicting Interests (Autumn Leaves)

© Roei Greenberg - Right to Roam
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Right to Roam

© Roei Greenberg - Wheat-field, Summer (Searching for The Hay Wain)
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Wheat-field, Summer (Searching for The Hay Wain)

© Roei Greenberg - English Experience (Outsider)
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English Experience (Outsider)

© Roei Greenberg - Hinterland
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Hinterland

© Roei Greenberg - "Youre Not Allowed To Be Here"
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"Youre Not Allowed To Be Here"

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