Uriel Orlow - In This Great Time 

Uriel Orlow - In This Great Time

Uriel Orlow’s new multi-media installation uses video, photography, drawing and text to investigate where history, place and memory intersect and resonate in the present. His starting point is the famous art nouveau Café Odeon, Zürich, a central stage for the high dramas of European intellectual life and politics for much of the first half of the 20th century. Orlow muses over the café’s architecture and its history as a meeting place for émigrés during World Wars One and Two. Here, Lenin, Joyce, the Dadaists and many more, consumed coffee, pâtisserie and the latest news.

Orlow’s work traces history’s imprint so that we may see its living continuity. Concerned with personal and collective experience, he explores how we classify, categorise and absorb knowledge, both intellectually and physically. 2008 exhibitions include The Jewish Museum, New York and Blancpain Art Contemporain, Geneva. Recent UK group exhibitions and screenings include ICA, BFI, Whitechapel, Arnolfini, as well as in Switzerland, Germany, France, Belgium and Bosnia.

“Like points in a stellar constellation, his work shapes Connections between systems, making what seems untranslatable, both poetic and precise”
Cheryl Smith, Art Critic

Exhibition Preview & Talk
Thurs 27 Nov, Claverton Rooms
University Campus
Preview: 6.30pm-8.30pm
Artist’s Talk: 7pm-8pm
Admission free, All welcome
Open Mon-Sat, 10am-5pm
Exhibition closed 24 Dec-5 Jan

http://www.bath.ac.uk/icia