Elad Lassry
White Cube London

“What I encounter is a resistance within the photographic medium to consider the art experience - by which I mean that if, as an artist, you use photographs, people are much less open to considering photography as a philosophical condition than if you use other media” 

This show passed me by, I came, looked and left with a feeling of confusion, my first reaction was one of a disruption. Perhaps the frustration came from having a space within a space which was unfamiliar. I couldn’t resolve and delve any deeper. Having a second look I have come to new a new perspective with Lassry and his work.

He considers on several levels the relationships between everything he approaches, for instance, the table which he photographs his still life’s on,  then the image itself when it is placed within the frame, then the image in the space. The way he uses coloured frames almost makes the frame itself a piece of the artwork, something I haven’t thought of before. He makes us stop and think, re-considering our relationship with the frame and the image.

He has been influenced by found images and takes inspiration from many sources including advertising current and past. Ultimately these brightly coloured pieces ask and force us to think about our own experience, the philosophy that makes photography just as much of a form of self expression that the next, he does this by creating spaces within spaces, an image within a frame, which then becomes an image itself.

(Source: frieze.com)