Reviews & Cuttings

Der Künstler Uriel Orlow untersucht in seinen vielschichtigen Videoinstallationen das Verhältnis zwischen individuellen und kollektiven Konstruktionen von Vergangenheit, Gegenwart und Zukunft. Gleichzeitig thematisiert er Überlagerungen von Dokumentation und Fiktion. Mit seinen jüngsten Arbeiten ist er nun im Rahmen von ‹Chewing … More →

Hallucinating by the Suez Canal When Israeli fighter jets attacked Egyptian airfields on 5 July 1967, triggering the Six-Day War, 14 cargo ships under the flags of eight nations were headed north on the Suez Canal. Theirs was to be … More →

Swiss artist Uriel Orlow’s multi-work installation Remnants of the Future, all works 2010, ruminates on time travel, architectureand Armenia since the 1915 Ottoman-Turkish genocide, the 1988 Spitak earthquake and the collapse of the SovietUnion in 1991. The dominant element – … More →

When I met Uriel Orlow at his first solo exhibition at Laure Gellinard gallery in London, the Swiss-born artist gave me a few pointers to decode his latest video work. Orlow’s background (he is from an émigré family) resonates throughout … More →

Uriel Orlow, ‘Oddly, one lived the war in one`s mind more intensively than in a country at war’ (detail, 2008) Uriel Orlow is best known for his contemplative video works that investigate the roles that language, image and memory play … More →