Ori Gersht: Black Box April 1, 2009

Artist Ori Gersht's work encourages viewers to reflect on the power of natural beauty and how it is affected by human intervention. In 'The Forest' (2006) the camera pans a lush, primeval forest. The other works in the exhibit refer to traditional Spanish and Dutch still-life painting in which precise arrangements of foods, fruit or flowers are shown at their peak, implying the inevitability of decay.