Sharon Ya’ari looks closely at the remains of lost histories and considers whether the photograph has the capacity to reconstruct and contend with them. For Ya’ari, photography as a medium is uniquely able to cope with the complex interrelations of imagination, historical knowledge, and the sociopolitical present. The “local” in his work is always a hybrid creature — a mosaic equally composed of facts on the ground, and of unfulfilled, conflicting desires, failures, and mistakes. A place caught in a perpetual state of development as well as decay and destruction. Ya’ari’s photography identifies the traces of the constant tension that exists between simple actions in everyday life and the ideologies that guide them.