Sharon Ya’ari: The Romantic Trail and the Conrecte House

What ruptures and fissures arise when social vision and everyday life collide?

How do formal and idealistic influences continue in a different reality of life? Israeli photographer Sharon Ya'ari explores these questions in his exhibition developed for Haus Esters, which is also his first solo exhibition in Germany. Built by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe at the end of the 1920s, Haus Esters and Haus Lange are among the icons of modern architecture in Germany, to which ideas of an open, future-oriented society can be linked. Since the former private houses have been used as exhibition venues for contemporary art, they have repeatedly inspired artists to explore the special atmosphere and architecture. Sharon Ya'ari builds on this tradition of site-specific work by developing new works and series for Haus Esters based on the reality of his own life. The starting point of his photographic search for traces is the connection between the ideas of European modernism between the world wars and the attempt to continue them in the young state of Israel. He traces the legacy of modernist formal language in his homeland. He is not interested in the perspective of architectural photography, but in the marginal, in the relics of everyday life, in the fragile relationships between people and the elements of their environment. The utopias of modernity overlap with the history of its ruptures and the conflict-ridden reality of everyday life today. The search for traces of the great visions of modernity thus becomes, as it were, a mirror of the conditions of human existence.

Exhibitions:
Haus Esters/Kunstmuseen Krefeld, 8/3/2020 - 21/3/2021
Oldenburger Kunstverein, 23/4 - 11/7/2021
Kunstverein Heilbronn, 23/7 - 27/9/2021