FIELDS AND VISION 3, 2022
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Ori Gersht
20/10/2023 - 01/12/2023
MICHAEL HOPPEN
3, Jubilee Place
SW3 3TD London
www.michaelhoppengallery.com
Michael Hoppen is delighted to announce our first solo exhibition with Ori Gersht.
For over twenty-five years, Gersht has been exploring the relationships between history, memory and landscape using the language of photography. Often this has meant adopting a poetic, even metaphorical approach to examine the difficulties of visually representing conflict and violent events or histories. Gersht’s work has the ability to transform a seemingly mundane experience to something ethereal and magical.
The Unreality of Time explores Gersht’s innovative use of photography and technology through several bodies of work dedicated to botanical studies. Referencing art history, Gersht's imagery is uncannily beautiful; the viewer is visually seduced by the often violent intervention of an explosion, caught on camera in fractions of seconds. These events are then processed, or rather, re-imagined as incidents in time. To approach this challenge Gersht is often adopting cutting edge technologies which allow him to push the boundaries of photography, questioning its relationship with our notion of reality and claim for truth.
Amongst work spanning from 2004 to 2022, ‘Elephant 2’ stems from a series in which Gersht searches for deserted grounds at the edges of cultivated gardens. “My intention is to explore the amalgamation of culture with nature; the failure to overcome nature expresses a state of mind as much as physical space”. The image was made during the short blossom season and the long, intentional over-exposure “invited the light to violate and fragment the film”.
20/10/2023 - 01/12/2023
MICHAEL HOPPEN
3, Jubilee Place
SW3 3TD London
www.michaelhoppengallery.com
Michael Hoppen is delighted to announce our first solo exhibition with Ori Gersht.
For over twenty-five years, Gersht has been exploring the relationships between history, memory and landscape using the language of photography. Often this has meant adopting a poetic, even metaphorical approach to examine the difficulties of visually representing conflict and violent events or histories. Gersht’s work has the ability to transform a seemingly mundane experience to something ethereal and magical.
The Unreality of Time explores Gersht’s innovative use of photography and technology through several bodies of work dedicated to botanical studies. Referencing art history, Gersht's imagery is uncannily beautiful; the viewer is visually seduced by the often violent intervention of an explosion, caught on camera in fractions of seconds. These events are then processed, or rather, re-imagined as incidents in time. To approach this challenge Gersht is often adopting cutting edge technologies which allow him to push the boundaries of photography, questioning its relationship with our notion of reality and claim for truth.
Amongst work spanning from 2004 to 2022, ‘Elephant 2’ stems from a series in which Gersht searches for deserted grounds at the edges of cultivated gardens. “My intention is to explore the amalgamation of culture with nature; the failure to overcome nature expresses a state of mind as much as physical space”. The image was made during the short blossom season and the long, intentional over-exposure “invited the light to violate and fragment the film”.