This exhibition premiers a new film called The Forest and a series of photographs by Israeli-born British based artist Ori Gersht. In his work Ori Gersht explores landscapes embedded with both personal and historic resonance.

The forest in question surrounds Kolomyia, in the Ukraine, a remaining fragment of the once vast primeval forest that covered much of continental Europe. Although the forest was much mythologised and idealised in paintings by the German Romantic artist Caspar David Friedrich, the area was to bear witness to appalling atrocities during World War II. Ori Gersht’s connection to the region is that his relatives were to find brief and harsh haven here from Nazi persecution.