In his project Gone - There, i returned to the history of the photography medium and extracted an episode that occurred - In a small village in the north of England in the early 20th century: in 1917 Two girls, cousins from the village of Cottingley, claimed to have seen real fairies in the woods behind their house. They stunned their skeptical family members when they managed to capture the fairies using the camera. The five photos where you see the girls socialize with the fairies in nature stirred not only their parents but an entire country and later, the rest of the world. For a long time, the photographs ignited arguments of skeptic believes, between rationalists and mystics in their search for the truth.
I return to the crime scene in search of the fairies that seem to have never disappeared. Standing on the verge of truth and fiction, i point out the points of friction between them, i ponder upon the parent-child relationships, about being and disappearing, on body and spirit, on the dead and the living, and also on the afterlife. The images were printed in Van Dyke Brown 19th century emulsion.
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Born in Tel Aviv, 1970. BFA and MFA from the Departments of Photography
and Fine Arts, Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem and Tel
Aviv. Recipient of the Young Artist Award, the Israeli Ministry of Science,
Culture and Sport (2000), the Young Photographer Award, Haifa Museum
of Art (2005), and a prize on behalf of the Heskia-Hacmun Law Firm (2007), Israel’s Minister of Culture ‘Art Encouragement’ Award (2012), Minister of Culture Award (2018).
Gershuni has had solo exhibitions at the Israel Museum Jerusalem, Haifa Museum of Art,
Herzliya Museum of Art and Chelouche gallery Tel Aviv.
participated in numerous group exhibitions in Israel and abroad.
His works are part of the collections of: Israel museum Jerusalem, Tel-aviv museum of art, Haifa museum of art, Petah Tikva museum of art, and many private collections.
and Fine Arts, Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem and Tel
Aviv. Recipient of the Young Artist Award, the Israeli Ministry of Science,
Culture and Sport (2000), the Young Photographer Award, Haifa Museum
of Art (2005), and a prize on behalf of the Heskia-Hacmun Law Firm (2007), Israel’s Minister of Culture ‘Art Encouragement’ Award (2012), Minister of Culture Award (2018).
Gershuni has had solo exhibitions at the Israel Museum Jerusalem, Haifa Museum of Art,
Herzliya Museum of Art and Chelouche gallery Tel Aviv.
participated in numerous group exhibitions in Israel and abroad.
His works are part of the collections of: Israel museum Jerusalem, Tel-aviv museum of art, Haifa museum of art, Petah Tikva museum of art, and many private collections.
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