Ori Gersht's name was given to me by Paul in my individual meeting and I'm already a little bit blown away by how much more I want to know about this artist. In a few short minutes of research I have been drawn into a world of film, philosophy and thought. In a press release on Ori Gersht, talking about his new film, 'Evaders'(which is actually showing in NY RIGHT NOW!!!) there is a quote from philosopher Walter Benjamin, which reads like this,
”an angel looking as though he is about to move away from something he is fixedly contemplating. His eyes are staring, his mouth is open, his wings are spread. This is how one pictures the angel of history. His face turned toward the past. Where we perceive a chain of events, he sees one single catastrophe which keeps piling wreckage upon wreckage and hurls it in front of his feet. The angel would like to stay, awaken the dead, and make whole what has been smashed. But a storm is blowing from Paradise; it has got caught in his wings with such violence that the angel can no longer close them. This storm irresistibly propels him into the future to which his back is turned, while piles of debris before him grows skyward. This storm is what we call progress.”
I'm speechless. Just so that I won't sit here and reword the entire Press Release I'm going to post a link to the article because this film sounds like it's definitely worth seeking out. http://www.crggallery.com/exhibitions/2009/ori-gersht/
http://www.crggallery.com/artists/ori-gersht/work/?photo=10 I can't upload this piece, but this is great. I've been thinking about all sorts of different materials to shoot through for a while, and frosted glass and lace were two of them. Whaddaya know? Gersht did it first. Great minds think alike? I'd like to think so.
Gersht's other work:
"...often turns out to be a more dimensional and resonant vehicle for portraying a mechanism of meaning through the imprint of time, light, and phenomena that perhaps expose the capacity and limitations of human memory as well."
This quote is in reference to Gersht's series where he freezes bouquets of flowers in liquid nitrogen and then photographs them as they shatter. This freezing of time, a moment that cannot be recaptured is phenomenal. See image above.
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