Elad Lassry

The third edition of Sensory Spaces, a series of commissioned solo projects at the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen in Rotterdam, is devoted to Elad Lassry.

Elad Lassry
Sensory Spaces is a series of commissioned solo projects presented in the Willem van der Vorm Gallery, located in the freely accessible exhibition space in the museum’s entrance hall.
For each edition an artist is invited to develop a work that emphasises or alters the visitor’s experience of this particular space.
The oeuvre of Elad Lassry (1977, Tel Aviv, lives and works in Los Angeles) focuses on the workings of the photographic image, both on a two-dimensional plane and in three-dimensional space. He is fascinated by how images are both a representation of and an abstraction of reality.
Sensory spaces
Top and above: Exhibition overview Sensory Spaces 3 - Elad Lassry, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen 2014. Photo: Studio Hans Wilschut, Rotterdam
How people look at pictures is central to Lassry’s installation for Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen. The materials and form of the elongated wooden sculpture in the installation refers to a door, which could open up or block the entrance to the exhibition space. The three freestanding sculptures are both barriers to perception and ‘viewing stations’ and are both decorative and functional objects. They influence the way the other works are perceived: the photographic objects on the walls can be viewed through the openings in the sculptures, or without an intervention. As you move through the space, sometimes the objects appear flat. This questions the three-dimensionality of the entire installation and transforms three-dimensional objects into two-dimensional images, and vice versa.
Sensory spaces
Exhibition overview Sensory Spaces 3 - Elad Lassry, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen 2014. Photo: Studio Hans Wilschut, Rotterdam
There is yet another tension between the photographic objects on the wall and the freestanding sculptures, namely the tension between mechanical reproduction and the handmade. The images refer to artificially staged studio photography, while the sculptures suggest a dedication to craft and applied arts. Lassry has stated that these sculptures are inspired by Viennese modernism around 1900: as stylistic marriage of figuration and abstraction with stylized forms and ornamentation. The artists of this period sought a connection between their objects and mankind. The constant tension between recognition and alienation in Lassry’s work interrupts the relationships between his work, the space and the viewer.
Sensory spaces
Exhibition overview Sensory Spaces 3 - Elad Lassry, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen 2014. Photo: Studio Hans Wilschut, Rotterdam

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