LOT 57
| Technique | Photography |
| Size | 120 x 100 cm |
| Availability | Available |
| Donation | 70% |
Fragile Land, an ongoing project in which the endangered, native flowers of Israel and serve as a vehicle to investigate ideology and the mythological narratives surrounding the concept of homeland.
In many of his previous projects, Gersht has used the genre of still life painting to explore the fragile nature of existence and the duality between what is enduring and what is momentary, a contradiction embedded in the very nature of photography
About Ori Gersht
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 exhibition at the Tel Aviv Museum, Tate Britain, The Guggenheim and the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston and a professorship at the University for the University of the Creative Arts , 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.
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