Uriel Orlow has exhibited and published in the UK and internationally. This site contains an online archive of selected work by Uriel Orlow.
 

Writing the City (Inventory, #1-4)

4 Billboard Posters (silkscreen prints), 90.5cm x 128 cm (2005)

Urban Inventory, #1-4 consists of a series of 4 billboard posters which collect writing by, in and on the city. More

   
 

In Concert

double/single channel video, sound, 7' 59" (2005)

In Concert shows a cellist and a pianist 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. More

   
 

Satellite Contact

two channel video with sound, 60 minutes (2004-5)

Satellite Contact is a two-screen video portrait of the British National Archives (formerly known as the Public Records Office). Satellite Contact never touches the ground: it takes the viewer on an hour-long roller-coaster ride through the guts of one of the most extensive national archives in the world. More

   
 

Mnemoscapes

6 framed giclée prints, video-projection, sound (2004)

Mnemoscapes is a neologism which denotes a depiction of a memory-scene: the image of a place of memory. The premise of this installation is a notion of history conceived as events-in-space, rather than events-in-time. More

   

A Picturesque Journey

single channel video, 60 minutes (2004)

A Picturesque Journey is a ‘road-movie’, showing the journey from Tornio in Northern Finland to the mountain Avasaksa on the arctic circle, where the French scientist Maupertuis in 1736 famously took his measurments to determine the shape of the earth. More

 

   

 

Instead #3 (Dialogue with an Absent Friend)

6 texts (2004)

Six text works made in response and as a tribute to,
and shown alongside, works by the late Jo Wood. More

   
 

 

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