Ori Gersht's The Floating World at Brand New Gallery, Milan
Ori Gersht (Tel Aviv, 1967) presents The Floating World at Brand New Gallery in Milan, featuring large-scale photographic works inspired by a 2015 visit to a Zen garden near Kyoto. The series captures reflections of nature on water, exploring the spaces between visible reality and virtual worlds through post-production. Other works include Blow Up, where flower bouquets disintegrate against black backgrounds, and Salted Drops, a two-screen installation with unexpected music depicting the dissolution and deformation of human figures.
Key facts
- Ori Gersht was born in Tel Aviv in 1967.
- The exhibition is titled The Floating World.
- The show is held at Brand New Gallery in Milan.
- The series was inspired by a visit to a Zen garden near Kyoto in 2015.
- Gersht's work explores the intersection of visible reality and virtual worlds.
- The Blow Up series features flower bouquets disintegrating on black backgrounds.
- Salted Drops uses two screens and music to show human figures dissolving and deforming.
- The article was written by Alessandra Ghinato.
Entities
Artists
- Ori Gersht
Institutions
- Brand New Gallery
- Artribune
Locations
- Tel Aviv
- Israel
- Milan
- Italy
- Kyoto
- Japan