Fragile edifices lost in the Judean Desert, between Jerusalem and the Dead Sea. Barely visible, shrunk further by the shadow of an immense, invisible sky that is gradually clouding over. Then, we pull nearer, see them more clearly: practice targets for the Israeli army. How strange this territory where objects can so quickly transform, once identified, from “threatened” to “threatening.”

As the lens and our eyes draw closer, we see metallic carcasses, overcome by the desert, rust and ruin, and captured by Shoshan in close-up, like so many strange portraits. They seem to confirm the ambivalent nature of a human endeavour geared towards consolidation and expansion. This series has the particularity of having been shot in 35 mm, unlike the medium format usually adopted by Shoshan.