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Ori Gersht

Israeli Photographer

Born: 1967

Decided Fruit Life Me Photography Work

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'Pomegranate,' started with my imagining a bullet going through the fruit and causing it to bleed. My initial associations were with pomegranates in old masters painting and their Judeo-Christian symbolism. Ori Gersht

Fruit Old Painting Through Bleed Masters Bullet Causing Were Going Initial Started Symbolism Associations Imagining

Violence can be very grotesque and also intensely attractive. What interests me is how the two - beauty and violence - live side by side, and how moments can be created and erased almost simultaneously. Destruction is painful, but at times it can be very cathartic. Ori Gersht

I have lived all my life as part of an ethnic conflict. Ori Gersht

Life Conflict My Life All My Life Part Ethnic Lived

My work is not so much a direct commentary as it is an open-ended observation of the absurdities around us. Ori Gersht

Work Direct Observation Absurd Open-Ended Around Commentary Us Much

I worked a little as a messenger on a bicycle and then decided to study photography and film. Ori Gersht

Photography Bicycle Study Messenger Decided Little Then Worked Film

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