Sharon Ya'ari

Galerie Martin Janda presents Sharon Ya'ari's fourth solo exhibition Plants I didn't ask for, ones I did from 20th March until 2nd May 2026.

For his latest body of work, Sharon Ya'ari has been cataloguing all the plants that are growing in the yard of his house. He then systematically photographs them and develops them as analogue prints. Almost like architectural fragments, the plants appear as frozen contemporary witnesses and symbols of transience and development.

The exhibitionis composed of three practices:
As a first step, the artist locates, identifies, and catalogues the plant species from his personal archive of photographs and images, all taken in the yard of the house where he grew up and where he now lives with his family. "The archive includes childhood photographs in which I appear in the garden, pictures I took as a young amateur photographer, images from visits and various occasions over the years, as well as family photographs in which the yard served as a backdrop for documenting the children-in everyday life and on special occasions." (Ya'ari)