Ori Gersht’s ‘uniquely powerful’ video installation arrives at British Art Center
In honor of the 25th reunion of his Yale College class, Alexander F. Cohen ’82 GRD ’85 LAW ’88 recently donated a copy of London-based Israeli artist Ori Gersht’s 2005 video installation “The Forest” to the Yale Center for British Art.
The 13-minute-long video was shot on 16 mm film in southwest Ukraine’s remote Galicia region and depicts a panoramic series of trees falling to the ground, violently disrupting the tranquil symphony of chirping birds and sonorous mosquitoes with a thunderous crash.
In the catalogue for 2005’s “The Clearing” — the photographic body of work in...
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