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Uriel Orlow

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Uriel Orlow is a Swiss artist who also occasionally writes and who lives and works in London.

Orlow's work tackles the impossibility of narrating or representing the past and addresses the spatial and pictorial conditions of history and memory.

Spanning locations in Africa, the Arctic, Eastern Europe and Switzerland, his work often employs a double-method of associative (horizontal-lateral) and archival (vertical-in depth) investigation in order to explore blind spots in the production and dissemination of knowledge. Orlow's modular installations comprising video, photography, drawing, sound and text create sensory fields that present us with a re-mix of the real, permeate perception and perform a subtle operation that activates a potentiality of the image in the present.

Orlow gained a BA (Hons.) Fine Art at Central Saint Martins College of Art & Design, London, followed by post-graduate studies at the University of Geneva and Slade School of Art, London and a PhD in Fine Art from the University of the Arts, London in 2002. His work has been exhibited internationally and is represented in private and public collections. In 2009 he received a Swiss Art Award at Art Basel for the second year running. Recent solo exhibitions include In These Great Times, Habres + Partner, Vienna (2009), Neither Fish Nor Fowl, Les Complices* Zürich (2009), 1942 (Poznan), The Jewish Museum New York (2008-9), In These Great Times, Blancpain Art Contemporain, Geneva and ICIA, Bath (2008-9) and Descent, Argos Brussels (2008). Recent group exhibitions and screenings include Jerwood Drawing Prize, Jerwood Space, London (2009) Zulu and other Fantasies, Museum Nachum Gutman, Tel Aviv (2009), The Whole World, Tate Modern (2008), the Third Guangzhou Triennial, Guangdong Museum of Art (2008), International Short Film Festival, Oberhausen (2008), New Work UK, Whitechapel Gallery London (2007), Retracing Territories, Fri-Art Kunsthalle Fribourg (2007), New Lands, BFI Southbank, London (2007), Videonale, Kunstmuseum Bonn (2007), Around the World in Eighty Days, Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) London (2006), Ghosting, Arnolfini Bristol (2006). Publications include The Benin Project, Deposits and Re: the archive, the image, and the very dead sheep. For the past four years he has been co-curating the quarterly Betsey's Salon, an interdisciplinary arts salon in London. He is also a senior research fellow in art at University of Westminster, London.

http://www.blancpain-artcontemporain.ch/artistes/uriel_orlow/uriel_orlow_01.htm

• ARTfutures 2008

  6th March — 12th March 2008
  Bloomberg Space 50 Finsbury Square London EC2A 1HD