Ronen Zien was born in Israel to a Syrian Druze family. His work was recently showed at the Museum of Art in Tel Aviv and it was quite moving. Titled Walking Into, the body of work features a series of photographs both old and new, some manipulated, that explore the themes of displacement and the reunification of family. It is a fitting body of work that touches on the political climate in the Middle East. Ronen Zien figures in his photographs as a means to connect with his family history. He walks into his photographs, specifically in Walking Into, and attempts to experience the life that his family lived at a time of political turmoil and separation. His work focuses on the Syrian-Israeli border which separates his family into two. Not able to visit he seeks to find solace through revisiting old memories of his past through old photographs and new ones too. Ultimately, he wants to question what is possible, what is not and what is imagined.
1 My father and mother, 2019
2 Green Screen, 2024
3 Khan al Akhdar No.1, 2017
4 Green Roofs, 2019
5 Ronen-Zien, Walking Into, 2024
6 Sacred Landscape Land art, 2021
7 Family album, 1990's
8 Faded Memory No.3, 2021
9 Faded Memory No.2, 2021
10 Intense Memory, 2021
11 Ronen_Zien_Interception, 2024
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