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Flowers [2004]
This series of five photographs was taken by Ori Gersht in 2004 at locations in and around London. They dipict wildflowers that have grown up in mundane and often ugly places such as traffic islands and road verges. Gersht concentrates on the flowers themselves, rather than their location, and, using a long exposure that almost erases the film, distorting colour and form, creates images that appear to be of Elysian Fields, not roadside wildernesses. Gersht has long been interested in the camera as a subjective, rather than objective tool with which to depict reality and transform its subject. In these works the transformation is from the mundane to the magical. There is an undeniable elegiac feel to the photographs and they are resonant of both remembering and forgetting. |
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