{"data":{"id":"11322","type":"artist","attributes":{"id":11322,"topgoose_id":1592,"tms_id":11322,"display_name":"Elad Lassry","sort_name":"Lassry Elad","display_date":"1977–","begin_date":"1977","end_date":"0","biography":"\u003cp\u003eElad Lassry “reactivates” images in\nhis art, which includes film, photography,\ndrawing, sculpture, and performance.\n“I am especially interested in finding pictures\nthat have fallen between the cracks, that\nhave been destabilized, misplaced, or\nrejected,” he has explained. Based in Los\nAngeles, Lassry is heir to the Pictures\nGeneration artists, who appropriated\npreexisting imagery in exploring how\nimages are produced, disseminated, and\ninterpreted. In Lassry’s work, the distinction\nbetween a found picture and a staged\none is often difficult to discern. His\nmeticulously crafted, glossy photographs\nplay havoc with traditions such as still\nlife and portraiture, in turn disrupting\ncustoms of framing, display, and installation.\nDrawings become films, and photographs\nregister as sculptures as the very\nboundary between object and image\ngrows increasingly fluid.\n\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLassry’s silent film \u003ca href=\"/collection/works/34268\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eUntitled\u003c/em\u003e\u003c/a\u003e employs\nreconstructions of photographs illustrating\nprinciples of perspective, which the\nartist found in a textbook from the 1970s.\nTo these seemingly straightforward\nenactments of diagrams he has added\nactors, who interact with the spaces.\nThe work’s long takes and fixed\ncamera positions recall structural films\nof the 1960s and 1970s, in which\nthe materials and overall structure of\nfilm are the subject. As \u003cem\u003eUntitled\u003c/em\u003e\nprogresses, however, one notices\nmismatches between the constructed,\nillusory tableaux and the individuals\nin the film, who seem to inhabit a separate\nspace and obey different codes of\nrepresentation. Footage of two people\nhaving an inaudible conversation\nintensifies the film’s disorienting effect\nand shifts its emphasis from the\nnature of perception to the workings\nof individual subjectivity.\u003c/p\u003e","on_view":false,"artport":false,"biennial":false,"collection":true,"ulan_id":"500355647","wikidata_id":"Q5353046","created_at":"2017-08-30T16:31:22.000-04:00","updated_at":"2026-03-28T07:04:46.149-04:00","links":{"artworks":"/api/artists/11322/artworks","exhibitions":"/api/artists/11322/exhibitions"}}}}