Uriel Orlow

Born in: 1973
From: Zürich, Switzerland
Lives and works: London, United Kingdom
Represented by: mor charpentier
Website: https://urielorlow.net/

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Biography

Uriel Orlow’s cross-disciplinary artistic practice explores themes like memory, history, colonialism, marginalized communities and more. Using a variety of mediums such as sound, video, photography, drawing and text, he gives shape to works weaving together past and present temporalities. His working process is research based, enabling him to construct a lasting bond with the communities he visits, and this in turn allows him to create works profoundly intimate.

Orlow’s videos show an affinity with the genre of documentary; however, they are not objective and one-sided pieces but rather works cultivating dialogue. His work is hybrid and like Trinh T. Minh-ha’s films, they assert that language, art and history are always biased.

During the French Revolution, painter Hubert Robert took interest in Roman ruins. Evocative of the destructive power of time, ruins were seen as testimonies of bygone eras and human’s impermanence. As Orlow, Hubert was captivated by “spatial manifestations of memory” and regarded them as humans' imminent fate.

Career highlights

Solo shows

2021, Fundaziun Nairs, Scuol/Switzerland: Up Up Up
2020, State of Concept, Athens, Greece: Learning from Artemisia
2018, Market Photo Workshop, Johannesburg, South Africa: Theatrum Botanicum
2011, Tate, London, UK: A Reflection of Revolution in Egypt
2008, Jewish Museum, New York, UK: 1942 (Poznan): A video by Uriel Orlow

Group shows

2021, Guatemala Biennial, Guatemala City and Antigua, Guatemala: lost. in between. together
2020, Para Site, Hong Kong: Garden in Six Seasons
2019, Gropius Bau, Berlin, Germany: Garden of Earthly Delights
2018, Human Resources, Los Angeles, USA: A Grammar Built with Rocks
2017, Sharjah Art Foundation, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates: Sharjah Biennial 13: Tamawuj