Ori Gersht b. 1967

Noga Gallery, Tel Aviv
Acquired from the above by the present owner

Work in very good condition.
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This work is from Ori Gersht's White Noise series photographed between 1999-2000 in Birekenau, Poland.

Ori Gersht's oeuvre is concerned primarily with history and metaphor, journeys and geographical places and the essence of metaphysical place. Many of his series deal with traumas of the past, the series White Noise documents his train journey from Krakow to Auschwitz. This series not only probes into a universal trauma but into a personal one, as Gersht's family originated from Krakow. In an interview with Katherine Stout, the artist explains the challenges he faced 'Firstly my family is from Krakow and the second is the statement from Adorno that there won't be any lyrical poetry after Auschwitz. Photographs always struggle in places like these because a photograph is good at recording detail, but it cannot talk about the depth of the emotion in the events that took place. I was interested in the challenge of what can happen in a place the camera can never deal with.' (Ori Gersht quoted  in  Afterglow, Ori Gersht, London and Tel Aviv, 2002, pp. 139.)