British artist Catherine Yass shot this piece during a visit to Israel last year, while driving along various sections of the separation fence/wall under construction. The familiar image of the fence/wall is conveyed via a foreign perspective as a highly-textured surface, a plastic raw material from which a violent reality bursts forth, attesting to the splitting of a territorial sequence. The fence/wall takes over the frame, besieging it, leaving only a thin strip of sky and soil at its margins. In the unbuilt gaps of the wall, where rural scenery and blue sky are briefly exposed, one can discern the randomness with which the landscape is sliced, only to drive on in the alienating journey vis-à-vis the gray concrete.

Catherine Yass was short-listed for the Turner Prize 2002. In 2001 she exhibited at the Herzliya Museum of Art as part of the exhibition No World Without You: Reflections of Identity in New British Art

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