Yaniv Waissa addresses how collective memory and the politics of a society gets inextricably tangled up with the physical reality, the fabric, of a place, the forces that shape where we live and how, showing the routines of space we inhabit – or are inhabited by even, how certain attitudes, and our histories, are manifested in the structures we create. Yet there is a real sense of contingency in the pictures, at odds with the ambition underlying the monumental works they depict (along with their political realities) that suggests a potent allegory of national uncertainty behind the dry, measured appearance of the pictures themselves. Waissa has produced a diverse range of work, all circling around the same broad themes of memory and place, but this project Disintegration of a Revived Nation is maybe his most accomplished to date. You can see the rest of it online here.
