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Description

Roei Greenberg (b.1985)
Untitled Landscape, View from Highway 90, Dead Sea
Signed (to reverse)
Photograph
Unframed 120 x 150cm
Framed 124 x 154cm

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Roei Greenberg (b. 1985) is a London-based artist raised on a kibbutz near the Lebanese border in Israel. Working primarily with photography, he explores landscape as a complex intersection of culture, geography, and autobiography, questioning how one's perceived connection to the land shapes identity. His work examines themes of boundaries, power, and legitimacy while engaging with histories of land ownership and exclusion, making his approach inherently socio-political.

Greenberg’s practice is characterized by meticulously detailed journeys—both personal and art-historically referential. He combines an objective aesthetic with a critical perspective, creating multi-layered photographic compositions that are visually compelling yet challenge traditional modes of landscape representation. Walking the land becomes an act of intervention; in some cases, he introduces subtle disruptions, subverting the environment and adding a performative element that challenges conventional documentary approaches. His work emerges as a detailed conversation between photographer and place, where recurring compositional devices and structures signal deeper meanings, questioning the theatricality of identity as it is performed in and on the landscape.

Greenberg’s work has been exhibited internationally at institutions such as The Royal Academy, South London Gallery, Leeds Art Gallery, Aperture Gallery, The Benaki Museum, and the Israel Museum. In 2021, he was invited by The National Gallery, London, to contribute to an event celebrating John Constable's work. That same year, he won the Camera Clara Photo Award, leading to his first solo exhibition at Galerie Baudoin Lebon in Paris. He has also been shortlisted for several prestigious awards, including the Prix Levallois, the Human Rights Photography Prize, the Magnum Photography Awards, Photolucida Critical Mass Top 50, and the Sony World Photography Awards. In 2019, he was selected for Bloomberg New Contemporaries. Greenberg earned his MA from the Royal College of Art in 2020.

"Greenberg has developed a very idiosyncratic visual language in his work. The landscapes are seductive and almost hypnotizing, drawing the viewer under their spell. But the appearance is too good to be true, because one does not trust the conjured harmony, and an irony breaks its way in, revealing the complexity of these pictures." — Andreas Gursky