African Blood Ride Gliders with Orange Sky from the Another World series, 2022. Archival pigment print, 39 3/8 x 30 5/16 inches.
Orchids with Asian Swallowtail from the Another World series, 2022. Archival pigment print, 39 3/8 x 31 1/8 inches.
White Lilies in the Forest from the Another World series, 2022. Archival pigment print, 47 1/4 x 31 7/8 inches.
Monkey Jar and White Jungle Lilies from the series Another World, 2022. Archival pigment print, 29 9/16 x 59 1/16 inches.
Untitled 05 (Fusing Time), 2022. Archival pigment print, 59 x 44 inches.
Untitled 04 (Fusing Time), 2022. Archival pigment print, 59 x 44 inches.
Untitled 02 (Fusing Time), 2022. Archival pigment print, 59 x 44 inches.
Untitled 01 (Fusing Time), 2022. Archival pigment print, 59 x 44 inches.
Flower 04 (Rijksmuseum), 2021. Archival pigment print, 46 1/2 x 35 inches
Flower 05 (Rijksmuseum), 2021. Archival pigment print, 46 1/2 x 35 inches
Flower 03 (Rijksmuseum), 2021. Archival pigment print, 46 1/2 x 35 inches
Flower 01 (Rijksmuseum), 2021. Archival pigment print, 46 1/2 x 35 inches
Ori Gersht, Iris Atropurpurea D03, 2018. Archival pigment print, 47 1/4 x 40 3/8 inches.
Iris Atropurpurea 06B P, 2018. Archival pigment print, 15 3/4 x 12 3/4 inches.
Iris Atropurpurea 05B P, 2018. Archival pigment print, 15 3/4 x 12 3/4 inches.
White City 03, 2021. Archival pigment print, 30 x 86 5/8 inches.
White City 02, 2020. Archival pigment print, 31 1/2 x 39 3/8 inches.
Ori Gersht, New Orders, Evertime 10, 2018. Archival pigment print, 23 5/8 x 31 1/2 inches.
Ori Gersht, New Orders, Evertime 09, 2018. Archival pigment print, 23 5/8 x 35 1/2 inches.
New Orders, Evertime 08, 2018. Archival pigment print, 17 3/4 x 23 1/4 inches.
New Orders, Evertime 07, 2018. Archival pigment print, 23 5/8 x 28 inches.
New Orders, Evertime 06, 2018. Archival pigment print, 17 3/4 x 20 7/8 inches.
New Orders, Evertime 05, 2018. Archival pigment print, 13 3/4 x 31 3/8 inches.
New Orders, Evertime 04, 2018. Archival pigment print, 13 3/4 x 18 inches.
New Orders, Evertime 03, 2018. Archival pigment print, 13 3/4 x 18 inches.
New Orders, Evertime 02, 2018. Archival pigment print, 13 3/4 x 18 inches.
New Orders, Evertime 01, 2018. Archival pigment print, 13 3/4 x 18 inches.
Night Fly 03, 2010. Archival pigment print.
A Matter of Life and Death 01, from the series Floating World, 2016, 51 1/8 x 72 1/2 inch archival pigment print
Floating World 01, from the series Floating World, 2016, 47 1/4 x 46 1/2 inch archival pigment print
Lost World 01, from the series Floating World, 2016, 59 1/8 x 55 3/4 inch archival pigment print
Floating Bridge, from the series Floating World, 2016, 47 1/4 x 47 1/4 inch archival pigment print
Hiroshima Sleepless Nights, Never Again 01, from the series Chasing Good Fortune, 2010, 31 1/2 x 25 5/8 inch archival pigment print
Hiroshima Sleepless Nights, Never Again 02 (Diptych), from the series Chasing Good Fortune, 2010, two prints each measuring 31 1/2 x 25 1/2 inches, overall 63 x 25 1/2 inch archival pigment prints
Tokyo Imperial Memories, Speck 04, from the series Chasing Good Fortune, 2010, 15 3/8 x 15 3/4 inch archival pigment
Tokyo Imperial Memories, Speck 02, from the series Chasing Good Fortune, 2010, 15 3/8 x 15 3/4 inch archival pigment
On Reflection, Material E02, After J. Brueghel the Elder, 2014, 74 3/4 X 59 1/8 inch archival pigment print
On Reflection, Material E04, After J. Brueghel the Elder, 2014, 74 3/4 x 59 1/8 inch archival pigement print
On Reflection, Material E23, After J. Brueghel the Elder, 2014, 84 5/8 x 70 7/8 inch archival pigment print
On Reflection, Fusion J01, 2014, 17 3/4 x 15 3/4 inch archival pigment print
Blow Up, Untitled 19, 2016, 70 7/8 x 91 inch archival pigment print
Blow Up, Untitled 17, 2016, 70 7/8 x 89 3/8 inch archival pigment print
Blow Up, Untitled 1, 2016, 94 1/2 x 70 7/8 inch archival pigment print
Blow Up, Untitled 08, 2016, 94 1/2 x 70 7/8 inch archival pigment print
Far Off Mountains and Rivers, from the series Evaders, 2009, 59 7/8 x 90 1/2 inch archival pigment print
Wreckage, from the series Evaders, 2009, 23 5/8 x 74 7/8 inch archival pigment print
Time After Time, Untitled 1, 2006, 15 3/4 x 11 7/8 inch archival pigment print
Time After Time, Untitled 31, 2006, 15 3/4 x 11 7/8 inch archival pigment print
Time After Time, Untitled 16, 2006, 15 3/4 x 11 7/8 inch pigment print
Time After Time, Untitled 30, 2006, 15 3/4 x 11 7/8 inch archival pigment print
Time After Time, Untitled 8, 2006, 15 3/4 x 11 7/8 inch archival pigment print
Olive 16, from the series Ghost, 2003, 39 1/2 x 31 1/2 inch archival pigment print
Olive 21, from the series Ghost, 2003, 59 1/8 x 47 1/4 inch archival pigment print
Olive 20, from the series Ghost, 2003, 47 1/4 x 59 1/8 inch archival pigment print
Olive 15, from the series Ghost, 2003, 47 1/4 x 59 1/8 inch archival pigment print
Olive 6, from the series Ghost, 2003, 39 1/2 x 31 1/2 inch archival pigment print
Olive 13, from the series Ghost, 2003, 47 1/4 x 59 1/8 inch archival pigment print
Blaze, Untitled 2, 2003-2004, 47 1/4 x 47 1/4 archival pigment print
Blaze, Untitled 1, 2003-2004, 47 1/4 x 47 1/4 inch archival pigment print
Imbalances, from the series Falling Bird, 2008, 59 1/8 x 47 1/4 inch archival pigment print
Drown, from the series Falling Bird, 2008, 39 3/8 x 31 1/2 inch archival pigment print
Drown Two, from the series Falling Bird, 2008, 34 5/8 x 31 1/2 inch archival pigment print
Untitled 8, from the series Falling Bird, 2008, 15 3/4 x 11 3/8 inch archival pigment print
Israeli photographer and video artist Ori Gersht creates bodies of work that often poetically explore the relationships between history, memory, and landscape. Through metaphor, Gersht illuminates the difficulties of visually representing conflict and violent events or histories.
Themes such as Dutch still life painting, romantic landscapes, and Nazi-occupied territory escape routes in the Pyrenees are steeped in Gersht’s bodies of work. 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 slow-motion films in which traditional still lives explode on screen.
He approaches these topics not simply through his choice of imagery, but by pushing the technical limitations of photography, questioning its claim to truth.Gersht is perhaps best known for his work with slow-motion capture, wherein he produces images and video portraying fruits, flowers, and other material fracturing when stuck with high velocity gunfire.
Born in Tel Aviv, Israel in 1967, he earned his MFA in photography from the Royal College of Art in London, later gaining critical success with an exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston and a professorship at the University for the Creative Arts in Rochester in Kent, England.
Gersht’s works have been in numerous major institutions including the Guggenheim, New York; the Hirshorn Museum, Washington D.C.; Bass Museum of Art, Miami; the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles; and the Victoria & Albert Museum, London, among many others.
Time - An Interactive Exhibition for the Whole Family
August 1, 2020 - May 1, 2021
The exhibition seeks to examine the concept of time through the world of art, and invites the visitors,older and younger alike, to try to “control time” using a wide variety of artistic, technological and interactive tools – to play, experience, consider and refashion the concept of time, based on their own perception.
June 5 - September 2, 2018
Ori Gersht and Zadok Ben-Dvaid
Ori Gersht’s Falling Bird is inspired by the still life of the 18th century painter Jean-Siméon Chardin, entitled A Green-Colored Duck Attached to the Wall and a Bigarade. The film reveals a suspended duck, suddenly splitting a shimmering black surface, which collapses in its own reflection. The impact of the bird that penetrates the liquid surface and the triggering of a tremendous chain reaction, evokes the idea of an ecological disaster. Ori Gersht explores the relationship between photography and technology.