INNER IDENTITY

Here are my final three images for my concepts and themes project- Identity.

I have created a triptych to try and create a clearer representation of Identity vs Inner self.

When I say Inner self, I also mean your true identity, your soul, the thing that most represents you as a person, deep down. Your identity which people see around you is basically your 'roles' in life.  For example an identity of a mother, daughter, colleague, student, partner, these are your multiple identities which has come from the 'social world' and your experiences of life, the 'labels' you posses. Your inner, true self/ identity is your thoughts, desires, dreams in life- this is the 'self' that people won't see if you choose to hide it away- it becomes your shadow.

These are of course my own opinions on these subjects, which I have stemmed from reading various pieces of research.

Please let me know what you think! :)

Thanks for looking!

SURREAL PORTRAITS

Hello! I have been shooting today so here is an update on my recent project, here are my new images, I have used my house as the location again because if I think of this as a personal approach then being at home is somewhere I feel I can be myself the most, and this may also relate to others as well.

So let me know what you think everyone! :)

ORI GERSHT

ORI GERSHT: 
THIS STORM IS WHAT WE CALL PROGRESS

25 January 2012 to 29 April 2012

Visit the Imperial War Museum for more information.

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.

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

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"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/