Omri Harmelin​​

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Lives and works in Tel Aviv - Jaffa

 

​Omri Harmelin's work tackles familiar narratives and issues of visual culture, mass media and politics. The Visual domain, in all its manifold functions and issues is a main concern to him. Through their activation of both the images and presences drawn from both high and mass culture, he deals with the ambivalent qualities of modern myth and heroes (Mike Tyson, Pinocchio, the hara-kiri ceremony). It is through those narratives of those that belong to stars and heroes of the "hall of fame" that we measure ourselves.

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Harmelin graduated from HaMidrasha School of Art at Beit Berl College, and completed an Mfa with honors from Pratt Institute in New York. His works have been exhibited in various galleries across Europe and the United States.