Ori Gersht

Ori Gersht's still lifes explode in slow motion, his landscapes are sometimes blurry and overexposed. Yet, perhaps due to the instability of these images they seem to breathe and are full of life. The photographic moments depicted are not cooly observed from the distance but are rather felt deeply from within. The still life genre has traditionally served to remind us of mortality and the finitude of all earthly things. Gersht takes that idea a step further and literally puts us face to face with the stretching to infinity moment of the end.