Adi Nes: Soldiers

Nes hired models, make-up and a teams of assistants to create large-scale staged photographs depicting Israeli soldiers at work, in combat, at play, and at rest. Placed within the context of the Israeli military, Nes subverts the image of the rugged legendary Israeli soldier of the l967 legend into a series of pretty boys posing and letting off steam. In Nes’s photographs, the image of the Israeli soldier is transformed from the fit-and-friendly youth of fifty years ago to a figure far more edgy, incongruous, overbuilt, narcissistic, masculine, homoerotic, and orthodox, but still powerful. Nes has said, "This was my way of criticizing the bad mix that is Power and Judaism".

Horace Brockington, NY Arts Magazine

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