28 August 2005

Leora Laor

September 1 - October 8, 2005
Opening: 01.09.2005, 20:00

Dvir Gallery is delighted to open its 2005-2006 season with a solo show by Leora Laor, with recent digital prints from the years 2003-2005. While some of the works in the show will be presented on this occasion for the first time, others - taken from the series Wanderalnd [2003] and Images of Light [2003-2004] - were previously exhibited in the artist's solo shows in Paris and New York, and will be presented in the coming year in Chicago as well.

The digital technology bestows Leora Laor's work with its unique qualities. It enables Laor to represent urban and human landscapes as realistic as well as fantastic spaces, spanning between the banal, the tragic and the comic.

Leora Laor [b.1952, Israel] practiced photography during the 1980's in Israel and the US. Few years ago, after an interval of two decades, she decided to get back to photography once again. She was recently chosen as the 2005 laureate of the prestigious Leon Constantiner Prize for Israeli Photography, granted by the Tel Aviv Museum of Art. Her works are to be found in major private and public collections in and outside Israel, such as the collection of the Metropolitan Museum, NYC and those of the IBM and Coca Cola Corporations in the US.

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