Ori Gersht (né en 1967)

On reflection, 2014
Material B 07
C-print monté sur dibond
Edition 3/5
H_100 cm L_80 cm
Courtesy of Ori Gersht
Ori Gersht was born in Israel in 1967, but has lived in London for over 30 years.
Throughout his career his work has been concerned with the relationships between history, memory and landscape. He often adopts a poetic, metaphorical approach to explore the difficulties of visually representing conflict and violent events or histories.
Gersht approaches this challenge not simply through his choice of imagery, but by pushing the technical limitations of photography, questioning its claim to truth.
Frequently referencing art history, Gersht's imagery is uncannily beautiful; the viewer is visually seduced before being confronted with darker and more complex themes, presenting a compulsive tension between beauty and violence. This has included an exploration of his own family's experiences during the Holocaust, a series of post-conflict landscapes in Bosnia and a celebrated trilogy of slowmotion films in which traditional still lives explode on screen.