"Village" is a 4.7 meter long panorama picture composed of digital color pictures. 50 photos were taken with a medium format camera and mounted on a light box.
The image shows a model of a Palestinian village built by the Israeli army. The model village was built in true-to-life size for training Israeli soldiers, to simulate possible attack scenarios.
The work stages a sharply focused picture in digital collage technique; in the authenticity of the details not even perceptible with the naked eye and the back lighting, it seems aesthetically glorified, thus becoming a hyperreal metaphor for the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
9th Istanbul Biennale, 2005

Yaron Leshem, born 1972 in Jerusalem, lives and works in New York
http://yaronleshem.com/