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Uri Gershuni

Uri Gershuni presents three colors prints: Rejuvenation - a portrait of artist Edna Ohana, and Altar - two frontal photographs of pattern papers painted in a manner that lends them the appearance of crocheted doilies. Gershuni sees a great affinity between photography and knitting. "Both," he explains, "include a synthesis between a production process and a creative process; between their technological and emotional dimensions." As Gershuni notes, photography long struggled to secure its status in the field of "high" art; the process of painting the "doilies" similarly belongs to the realm of "inferior" tasks. These are childlike paintings, at once reductive and compulsive, which undermine the myth concerning the artist's touch and the artwork's aura of uniqueness. In Edna's portrait, the shawl, which was especially knit for her by the artist, functions as a kind of "transitional object" invested with a comforting, supportive and protective power - an object that mediates between the photographer and the sitter, between image and reality.

Born in Ra'anana, 1970; lives and works in Tel Aviv