Uri Aran

My project is now based on hard work and labour, and must be incorerated into the method of which i work in, and in the look  of the piece itself. as My project is based on worn down sand paper, the work that went into wearing it down must be recognised and acknowledged in my own works, as this is what inspired me

Now i look into the hard work a joiner does in order to wear down the sand paper, and state in which his hands are from manual labour, and the conditions in which he works.
I feel that this must all be taken into account when i make my pieces, and a certain amount of manual labor must be incorperated also.

this artist, Uni Aran's work reminded me of the work top int he joinery shed, although his work is about an entirely different subject!

Uri Aran’s recent solo exhibition at Rivington Arms, New York, closed the gallery. Titled Geraniums, it exemplified his corrupted approach to materials, structures and narratives. His early films are manipulative depictions of sentimentality. His recent tabletop works are hopeless and imperfect. As he puts it in the title of his 2006 graphite drawing: ‘In a milk drinking contest it is OK to have one of the contenders drink chocolate milk.'

Born in Israel in 1977, Aran is part of a new generation of Israeli artists who exhibit a deep skepticism about questions of identity, sentimentality and the ways in which we create images of desire. The work is torn between narratives of longing and displacement. Often deploying a combination of dry narrative and lush imagery, Aran’s video-work is undermined by his own constructions, which can be read as devastated landscapes where a loss of logic mirrors the sense of a set of promises that are currently unfulfilled.