What is interesting about each one of these revolutions is that it changed the way we perceive the outside world. And currently, we are in the middle of the technological revolution. The second belongs to the 19th century, which is called the Industrial Revolution. First, the scientific revolution belongs to the 17th century. He continues to add, “As a photographer, I often refer to three historical moments or three revolutions in the discipline of photography. So, when I travel to a certain place and look at the landscape with some historical knowledge of it, I see this gap between human history and its beauty.” Gersht’s photographs are an attempt at capturing the reality of the non-absolute, to talk about it through the power of digital photography and its inability to capture a time gone by, Gersht says, “My work explores the relationship between the present and the past. The duality with which peace and disruption are captured in the imagery of Fragile Land hints at the stubborn gaps that lie between the two realities- geological time and human time. Over the years, pastime activity became so popular that the flower became endangered.” However, this intimate exercise instilled a need to draw an environmental or ecological responsibility towards nature, in a way it also invigorated the sense of belonging to a place, which goes beyond the particular narrative of ‘a’ land.ģ1 mins watch Ori Gersht’s lecture about his work Video: Courtesy of Ori Gersht In addition to that, people were encouraged to go to the bed of flowers and to pick those in an attempt to strengthen the relationship between the flowers, the land and its citizens.
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Tracing the historical, political and ideological value associated with the flowers such as cyclamen, Iris Atropurpurea, and The Madonna Lily, the series relooks at the event what the British artist mentions it in an interview with STIR, “The program was developed in Israel, a particular ideological initiative, to translate the names of the flowers from Latin to Hebrew names. The flowers, carrying both Israeli and European cultural histories, through the choreographed studio session were made to explode from a bullet fired from a customised air rifle.
The photo series Fragile Land is focused on the flowers available in Israel, which are on the road to extinction. Fragile Land, Cyclamen D01, 2018, Photography (Archival pigment print) Image: Courtesy of Ori Gersht
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