Wadi Qelt, dans la clarté des pierres

This edition brings together the corpus of Dolines, the work developed over several years by Ilanit Illouz.

The title of the work refers to the surveyed territory: Wadi Qelt, in the clarity of the stones is a publishing project that is based on research around natural elements, and more particularly water, earth, salt. .It presents an experimental photographic study around a territory: the Judean Desert, the Dead Sea, Israel and the West Bank. Wadi Qelt is a rocky canyon located in the Judean Desert in the West Bank, a desert that begins near Jerusalem and ends near Jericho, not far from the Dead Sea.

The work is conceived as a path cut through the desert according to several elements, supports, mediums like the corpus of Ilanit Illouz. The landscapes precede the still lifes then details of the Dead Sea salt prints brought back by the artist who. Emilie Notéris’s text located intus the book sheds light on the artist’s work by providing expert information on the geographical, historical and artistic context offered by Wadi Qelt, in the clarity of the stones.