Ori Gersht: Fields and Visions

From Talley Dunn Gallery:

“Talley Dunn Gallery is proud to start the New Year with a major exhibition by internationally renowned, London-based photographer Ori Gersht. Fields and Visions will run from January 14 – March 25, 2023. This exhibition will include new works along with a site-specific video installation. We invite you to join us in welcoming Ori Gersht on Saturday, January 14th with an in-depth artist talk and exhibition walk-through at 3pm and reception for the artist from 5pm – 7pm.

In Fields and Visions, Gersht returns to the botanical themes that have occupied him for so much of the last decade. The inspiration for this new work comes from the Swiss naturalist Maria Sibylla Merian, who travelled to Suriname (Dutch Guiana) in the 17th century and was the first artist to study and record native tropical plants and insects from that region, and the paintings of the American artist Martin Johnson Heade, who travelled to Amazonia in the 19th century in search of hummingbirds and exotic orchids. Despite its convincing realism, their paintings and drawings reveal a fusion of fact and fiction, to create a unique and mysterious world that ignites our imagination.”