ORI GERSHT:
THIS STORM IS WHAT WE CALL PROGRESS
25 January 2012 to 29 April 2012
Here is another exhibition piece which I thoroughly enjoyed once again, Ori Gersht is a great artist and hugely inspirational!
This exhibition was quite surreal on first impressions, the work is very abstract and conceptual which makes it very interesting aesthetically. Many of the events featured in Gersht's work centre around World War 2 and the title was derived from an essay by German Jewish philosopher Walter Benjamin.
This exhibition was quite surreal on first impressions, the work is very abstract and conceptual which makes it very interesting aesthetically. Many of the events featured in Gersht's work centre around World War 2 and the title was derived from an essay by German Jewish philosopher Walter Benjamin.
Gersht re-examines our relationship with this debris through film and photography. (debris of past events.) He uses photography as a metaphor for history and explores the representation of past and present and the links and ruptures between physical traces, cultural symbols and memories.
Gersht is concerned with the relationship between history, memory and landscape. He adopts a poetic and metaphorical approach to explore the difficulties of visually representing conflict and violent events or histories.
He also pushes the technical limitations of photography, questioning its claim to truth.
Ori Gersht, 2011
CHASING GOOD FORTUNE: HIROSHIMA SLEEPLESS NIGHTS, NEVER AGAIN 01
Ori Gersht, 2011
CHASING GOOD FORTUNE: TOKYO IMPERIAL MEMORIES: FLOATING PETALS-BLACK WATER
Ori Gersht used a digital camera at night to create his "petal" work, however the camera sensor struggled to record the correct light and colour information, resulting in stippled images, referencing early colour prints.
Gersht uses this visual "failure" as a device to explore the idea that photography does not present an absolute truth or narrative.
In his images of the "Cherry Blossom", taken in a memorial garden, was photographed at a shrine to Kamikaze pilots, the flowers became loaded with a dark, recent history. Simultaneously the images are beautiful, more positive connotations of the flower in the Buddhist tradition. It reveals complexities of trying to impose a single reading on an image.
WILL YOU DANCE FOR ME
HD FILM
"YEHUDIT ARNON"
The film is about a women who suffered a traumatic childhood and is imagining it all over in a dream like situation. The (old) women is sitting in a chair, now unable to dance like in her younger years, rocks back and forth in an uncomfortable manner with a separate screen featuring a field of thick, deep snow, the setting she may have experienced many years ago.
While she was a prisoner in Auschwitz, aged 19 she was ordered to dance at an SS Officer's party. She refused and was punished by making her stand barefoot in the snow. At that point she made a pledge that if she survived she would devote her life to dance. Later she fulfilled her dream with a successful dance company.
If you like the minimalist or abstract style of Art work please check out this website for some more images:
http://crggallery.com/artists/ori-gersht/
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