Ariel Schlesinger (° 1980) has the rare ability to take the things that inhabit our world and endow them with an element of magic. His practice creates a tension between the material nature of mass-produced workaday objects, and the functions they were designed for. The artist introduces a subtle disruption into consumer goods, not by dramatically modifying their appearance, but rather by “enhancing hidden aspects of their existence”. By forcing us to reconsider how we look at such things, he turns an often-trivial reality into something sublime.
Born in Jerusalem in 1980, Ariel Schlesinger lives and works in Berlin. His works are currently on view in the solo exhibition “Catastrophe Is Subjective” at the Kunstverein Braunschweig in Germany. He is also participating in the ongoing group exhibitions “Under Destruction” at the Swiss Institute in New York, “Based in Berlin” at the Atelierhaus Monbijoupark in Berlin, and “Experimental Station” at the Centro de Arte Dis de Mayo in Madrid.
