film that references Juan Sanchez Cotan’s 17th-century still life and Harold Edgerton’s stroboscopic photography, a high velocity bullet flies across the frame in slow motion and obliterates a suspended pomegranate fruit, bursting it open and wheeling it slowly into the air like a smashed violated mouth spraying seeds. A peaceful image is transformed into bloodshed, and a dialogue is established between stillness and motion, peace and violence. Gersht’s photographs and films provide a meditation on life, loss, destiny and chance. Allusions to the catastrophic violence of the French Revolution, the Spanish Civil War, the bombing of Hiroshima, and the suicide bombs that Gersht anticipated during his childhood in Israel can all be found in this work. As such, it reminds us of our past, present, and future, and, above all, the fragility of life itself. Awards and recognitions 1990 South Bank Photo Show, London 1993 Department of Transport Art Competition, London 1997 Residency at Whitefield School, Barnet 2000 The Constantiner Photographer Award for an Israeli Artist, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv 2002 Consultant to the Architectural Development Planning of the South London Gallery 2004 First Prize winner, Onfuri International, Tirana, Albania Solo exhibitions 2014 - Ori Gersht: Still Life, Columbus Museum of Art, USA 2014 - Ori Gersht: Portraits, Pizzuti Collection, Columbus, USA 2014 - All Will Come To Pass, The Center for Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv, Israel 2012 - History Repeating, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, USA. 2012 - This Storm is What We Call Progress, Imperial War Museum, London. 2011 - Lost in Time, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, California, USA 2009 - Black Box, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington DC, USA 2008 - Selected Films, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, USA 2008 - The Forest, Musée d’Art de Toulon, Toulon, France 2008 - Pomegranate, The Jewish Museum, New York 2007 - Time After Time: Exploding Flowers & Other Matters, The Armory Show (with CRG Gallery), New York, USA 2007 - The Forest & Blow Up, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, USA 2006 - The Forest, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, Israel 2006 - The Clearing, The Photographers' Gallery, London, UK 2004 - History in the Making, Photo España, Madrid, Spain 2002 - Afterglow, Art Now Room, Tate Britain, London, UK 2002 - Afterglow, Helena Rubenstein Pavilion for Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, Israel