Landscape in Continuum

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The research subject in Landscape in Continuum is a portion of land that sits between Isawiya and Abu Tor in East Jerusalem; unappropriated territory at the heart of a controversy between official authorities that seek to turn it into a national park - the Jerusalem Municipality, the Nature and Parks Authority, the Ministry of Interior, and the Ministry of Environmental Protection - and activists, politicians, urban planners, and residents of the area who wish to prevent this plan from being realized. They claim that the alleged environmental justification for the ‘Mount Scopus National Park’ project in fact hinges on political agendas, which aim to limit the spreading of the surrounding Palestinian neighborhoods.

The land in question, serene and peaceful-looking, stretches down the hillside of the Hebrew University campus on Mount Scopus, and has acquired an iconic quality since the campus’s inauguration. This is also the landscape that Pinchevsky saw every day during his studies at Bezalel. He currently seeks to follow this piece of land and understand what it means to observe it, realizing that landscape is a product of perspective and cultural structuring, and not only of architectonic plans and geographical outlines. The landscape’s repeated appearance in the photographs, maps and archive-based photo collages, creates a space of accumulative abundance, as a kind of gathering of evidence in attempts to decipher the significance of the place.

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2018

Sep 2026
Artist Statement

I’m a photographer and digital media artist whose research-driven practice investigates the politics of image-making in contested geographies, particularly in Israel/Palestine. Working across 3D modeling, mapping, aerial photography, archival research, and computational media, I create augmented, site-specific representations that critically examine how photography not only contributed to the Zionist colonial projects but was fundamentally shaped by the tasks it lent itself to.

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Oct 2025
Facing Photographic Acts / Noam Gal, Art Journal

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