URI ARAN

Uri Aran (b. 1977, Israel) studied Design at the Bezalel Academy Jerusalem (2004), before graduating with an MFA in Visual Arts from Columbia University, New York (2007). Today, the artist lives and works in New York, and his practice encompasses a wide range of media and subject matter, including film, sculpture, drawing, and assemblage. Throughout his practice, Aran constructs a language of indeterminate signifiers. ‘The discord of meaning in language is something I’m interested in’, he has explained. ‘I don’t know if it’s because English is not my mother tongue; I see a delay of meaning. I see things as mediated—almost everything is quoted.’ In contrast to the order, regularity and declarative meaning of a letter, his works confront use with inchoate landscapes – visual and verbal, immediate and mediated: ‘The interest for me is not in creating confusion. I am managing rather than “taming” the stutters, ticks and stammers that jolt along through the processes of thought and emotional response. I am making them visible.’