Untitled (Herend). 2009. C-print. 11 x 14 inches (27.9 x 35.6 cm) edition of 5, 2AP

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Two wolves. 2008. C-print. 11 x 14 inches (27.9 x 35.6 cm) edition of 5, 2AP

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Persian Cucumbers, Shuk Hakarmel. 2008. C-print. 9.5 x 11 inches (24.1 x 27.9 cm)

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Black Man. 2007. C-print. 11 x 14 inches (27.9 x 35.6 cm) edition of 5, 2AP

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Wolf (Blue). 2008. C-print. 11 x 14 inches (27.9 x 35.6 cm) edition of 5, 2AP

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Elad Lassry. 2010. Kunsthalle Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland. Installation view

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ELAD LASSRY’s photographs – everyday and design objects, fruit and vegetable still lifes, human and animal portraits, landscapes and cityscapes – allude to visual features and image constructions that have been used in photography, advertising, magazines and illustrated books, and in films.

His photographic works, which do not usually exceed the format of a magazine or printed material, comprise either collages of acquired printed matter or newly-composed photographs. The collages consist of found illustrated single and double-page spreads from magazines which LASSRY either reworks by heightening their design elements or reuses them several times for individual works as duplicated printed products.

However, they are almost too intensely coloured, too abstract, too staged. This process of visual emphasis, they are presented in matching coloured frames which thematicise critically the relationship between the image and the “picture” as a utilitarian object, refer to the history of the presentation of objects as art and the aestheticization of perception.

What emerges is something less iconic, an image that meditates on visual connections, imagistic tropes and the indexical aspects that can enter photographic presentation.

“I’m fascinated by the collapse of histories,” he explains. “And the confusion that results when there is something just slightly wrong in a photograph.” – by ELAD LASSRY