Interstices: Discovering the Ben Uri Collection, Curated by René Gimpel
Forthcoming exhibition
In Concert
single channel video with sound
2006-25
@Uriel Orlow
Photo: Ben Uri Gallery
Orlow's art explores the roles language, the image and memory play in structuring experience. Using a wide variety of media, from video and sound to photography, billboard-posters, text and drawing,...
Orlow's art explores the roles language, the image and memory play in structuring experience. Using a wide variety of media, from video and sound to photography, billboard-posters, text and drawing, his art engages with historical sites, body memory, archives and libraries. 'In Concert' explores the relationship between memory and the body, focusing on how memory is physically inscribed or embedded in habitual gestures. Music is a poignant example of this, as the rehearsal of a piece does not just result in it being memorised mentally but also corporeally as a cellist and a pianist are shown playing the first movement of Shostakovich's Cello Concerto No. 1 without their instruments. The music operates as a kind of ghostly mnemonic prompting their physically remembered gestures.
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