This exhibition featuring the work of Leora Laor, noted Israeli photographer, ruminates on a depiction of modern day society which is fuzzy, ambiguous, and transient, and on how human relationships function within its boundaries.

The photographs capture the diverse, and oftentimes uncomfortable ways that the individual fits into the world, whether presented as a contemporary urban landscape or as fantastic, dreamlike environments created by the artist. Film and video stills which recall traditional portraiture convey an unexpected sense of disconnection: expressions which are obscured and blurred to the point of non-recognition or someone’s back turned to the camera all represent Laor’s sedate exploration into the human condition.

In the aptly titled Image of Light series comprised of video stills, human figures appear against a background of glowing, lurid color, reducing each one to a darkened silhouette as the substantiality of the body disappears. The second group of photographs, shot in Jerusalem in the Orthodox neighborhood of Mea Shearim, possess a sense of agelessness with images of children who could have stepped directly out of the 19th century. The series captures the other-worldly sensation of a place that seems untouched by time, reveling in a type of nostalgia that borders on surreal.