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Breathless and deadly: contemporary photographer Ori Gersht examines the attraction and repulsion of what is, for him, the most masterly still life in art history.

 

The artist explores still life in works that feature in the exhibition Seduced by Art: Photography Past and Present. In these photographic and film pieces, classic floral arrangements are frozen and then blown up, leaving only shattered fragments.

 

Watch an extract from the artist’s film Big Bang 2, 2007

 

About the artist:

 

Ori Gersht is a London-based artist who uses photography and video to investigate the relationship between violence and beauty, war and exile, and life and death.

 

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