Ehud Oren, Photosynthesis – Braverman Gallery 2011.

Curated by Ghiora Aharoni – 17 November 2011 – 5 January 2012

Ehud Oren
Born in Israel. Lives and works in Tel-Aviv. Holds a Master of Arts degree from NYU and an M.A. from Hunter College, New York. Has studied painting and sculpture at the Student League in New York, and graphic design and print at Pratt Center, New York. Ehud has a B.A. degree from Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design and has taught graphic design at Sapir College. Ehud has participated in solo as well as group shows in Israel and around the world.

Ehud Oren recontextualizes ordinary images from the exterior world–fragments of photographs taken on the streets of Tel Aviv and New York–as canvases for functional repositories which conceal the mundane items of domestic life.

With this transposition of the exterior world to the interior, Ehud shifts our awareness of the routine, the quotidian, the things we take for granted. These arrested moments–withering vines, compressed cardboard, dilapidated facades, steel scraps–celebrate the transitory and ephemeral vernacular that surrounds us.

While what we see is recognizable, the manipulated context and scale heighten our perception of its inherent beauty. The gesture blurs the boundaries between art and furniture, elevating the utilitarian to the poetic.

 

Trapezoid dresser

I am single etc

Deconstruction 2

Decompression _ side

Bark bar

The four tours of the photosynthesis

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