Elad Lassry

Elad Lassry was born in 1977 in Tel Aviv, Israel, and currently lives and works in Los Angeles, California. After studying art and film at the California Institute of the Arts, he obtained a Master of Fine Arts from the University of Southern California. With an artistic practice that explores and redistributes images from a wide range of sources, Lassry repurposes these images across various media, including photography, video, drawing, and sculpture.

Defining his works as a fusion between sculpture and image, all executed at the same scale, Lassry employs a skillful interplay of virtual and real spaces. Each work proposes a virtual space, while the frame, an integral part of the image, provides a real context for it to occupy. This approach creates a hybrid entity, an epistemological puzzle that engages the perceptual faculties of the viewer, raising questions about how an objectality can influence the reading of the image and the role of the subject in shaping perception.

Among the prominent figures in contemporary art, Lassry's photographic and filmic works challenge conventional ideas about the use of images. Influenced by modern technologies and the history of media, the artist is particularly interested in analog materials and duplication methodologies. His works, which do not exceed the dimensions of a magazine page, encompass both existing collages and newly composed assemblages.

Characterized by vibrant colors and abstract compositions, Lassry's photographs disrupt the visual familiarity of the images, presented in frames that are chromatically matched. This aspect critiques the relationship between image and frame, understood both as a utilitarian object and as part of the exhibition tradition, provoking distortions in the usual modes of image perception.