Film and Video Umbrella

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The Clearing

Essays by Jeremy Millar. Introduced by Steven Bode

This elegant, beautifully illustrated publication presents three ambitious new series of works by the Israeli-born, London-based artist Ori Gersht, including The Forest, a major new film work commissioned by Film and Video Umbrella.

The forest has been seen traditionally as a dark place, and a place of dark deeds, and this is certainly true of the area surrounding Kolomyia, in Ukraine, where these works were made. It was here that appalling atrocities were perpetrated by the Nazis and Ukrainian collaborators upon the local Jewish population, Gersht??s, father, father-in-law, and brother amongst them. It is in this personal connection that can be found the genesis of this work, a meditation upon memory and meaning.
Published to coincide with an exhibition at The Photographers?? Gallery, London, this book with an essay by Jeremy Millar, explores the representation of history and catastrophe in photography, film and literature, and the possibility ?? or impossibility ?? of bearing witness to such events. A major new publication on one of the most thought-provoking young artists in Britain today, this book will appeal to those concerned with the importance of remembrance, and in the representation of history and place in contemporary culture.

Published by Film and Video Umbrella, in association with CRG Gallery, New York, Angles Gallery, Los Angeles, Noga Gallery, Tel Aviv and Andrew Mummery Gallery, London. With additional support from University College for the Arts at Canterbury, Epsom, Farnham, Maidstone and Rochester.

December 2005
240 x 305 mm landscape
Hbk
96pp full colour illustrations