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Exhibition
Chicago: Everything that happened, happened
here first
Venue
Q Arts Gallery
Dates
22 September to
5 November
Times
Tuesday to Friday
12pm to 4pm
Saturday to Sunday
10am to 4pm
Flash
Adam Broomberg
and Oliver Chanarin talk, 14 October
Websites
www.choppedliver.info
www.billcharles.com
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Adam Broomberg and Oliver Chanarin
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.
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