Untitled Document

Necropolis

in the Tate Modern

Roi Kuper, has been working four years on the project titled Necropolis. Deserted army camps become local archeological sites within a culture that invests heavily in training, defense, and war. Abandoned constructions become monuments which exploit the environment, leaving in their wake decay and ruins.

This archeological journey parallels with research conducted within a diversity of areas such as: investigations into unresolved crimes, a pathological post-mortem of remains, sociological and anthropological findings. This offers testimony to a specific culture and time, and a metaphysical exploration of the mythical importance of the army within Israeli society.

Kuper expose artificial and natural architecture that is functional and dysfunctional, spacious and confined, calculated and abandoned. A new aesthetic emerges from a nomadic reality which leaves concrete shadows of a disturbing nature.