Ori Gersht

Ori Gersht was born in Israel in 1967 and is currently based in United Kingdom. Ori Gersht engages the grand themes of life, death, violence, and beauty. His photographs and films of the past two decades transcribe images of sites of historical significance the Judean Desert, Sarajevo, Auschwitz, the Galicia region of Ukraine, the Lister Route in the Pyrenees into ciphers of psychological disruption. Such scenes may not seem out of the ordinary unto themselves, but, through the artist’s focused attention and treatment they evoke the emotional resonance of what has transpired—most often, violence, and, more significantly, the ghosts of war’s most egregious detritus, its refugees.

Recently he had his work exhibited at Imperial War Museum titled ‘This Storm is What We Call Progress.’ The title of the exhibition is taken from an essay by German Jewish philosopher Walter Benjamin. This exhibition brings together three new bodies of work by Ori Gersht, each reflecting on events that occurred during the Second World War. Some of his works exhibited at the exhibition were; against the tide: isolated 2010, chasing good fortune: in Japan, series of photographs.



Bibliography
http://www.iwm.org.uk/exhibitions/ori-gersht-this-storm-is-what-we-call-progress

http://crggallery.com/artists/ori-gersht/bio/