Maybe this Valentine’s Day you didn’t get that puppy in the window and instead, all you got was supermarket flowers. Ah…a woman’s rage. But it’s not a fit of rage captured on film, these flowers were immortalized on film by Israeli born Ori Gersht. Ori captures the destruction of objects with high-speed photography. For this particular series, Ori freezed the flowers with nitrogen and then blew them up into a million pieces only to capture 1/6000 of a second what the eye is unable to see.
The collection of obliterated buds are dubbed ‘Time after Time’. Mimicking oil paintings and using objects that symbolize peace, Ori explores the moment death arrives at our door. In a millisecond, we can be gone. If we even dare blink, we miss this moment. Ori Gersht was born in Tel Aviv in 1967 and studied at the Royal College of Art in London. He has exhibited internationally since 1999.
His solo efforts include ‘Afterglow’ at the Art Now room at Tate Britain, an expanded version of the same exhibition at the Helena Rubenstein Pavilion for Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv Museum, both in 2002 and ‘The Clearing’ at the Photographers’ Gallery, London in 2005/06. Recent Group exhibitions include ‘In Focus: Living History’ at Tate Modern in 2007, ‘Twilight: Photography in the Magic Hour’ at the Victoria & Albert Museum London and ‘Inside-Out, Contemporary Artists from Israel’ at MARCO, Vigo, Spain both in 2006.
By day, Ori Gersht is a Senior Lecturer in Photography at the University for the Creative Arts Rochester campus. Ori is widely recognized as being on the forefront of contemporary photography. His works not only threaten through the single moment of crisis, but also promises a breakthrough in the aftermath.
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