Ori Gersht: Two Videos
Ori Gersht creates videos and photographs that explore borders, thresholds, and transitions in time and place.
Art Exhibition
previously on
at
The Jewish Museum
in
New York,
United States.
From
Friday 19 October 2012 to Sunday 24 March 2013


Published by anonymous on Monday 12 November 2012.
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In Dew, dew on the artist’s lens evaporates to reveal the landscape of the Negev Desert. Two hours of film were condensed into three minutes, so that changes in the harshly beautiful landscape become a poetic metaphor for other kinds of changes, political and personal.
Neither Black nor White was filmed from the Jewish quarter of Nazareth looking onto the Arab village of Iksal. Half a second was recorded every thirty minutes to show city lights at night dimming as the sun rose on the village over a ten-hour period.