ARIEL SCHLESINGER: Ariel Schlesinger

Ariel Schlesinger (b. 1980, Jerusalem) is based between Mexico City and Berlin.

Through a poetic gesture, his work unfolds toward a post-minimal conceptual practice and

DE-functionalizes everyday objects. Using the strategies of construction and deconstruction in many of his works, Schlesinger pushes and transforms the object, creating new possibilities of understanding while also enabling surprising discoveries for the viewer within something that initially seemed utterly familiar. Departing from a background in “self-taught” engineering and with an energetic spirit, Schlesinger blurs the line between outsider inventor and studio-bound artist. The diverse and multilingual work points toward what is already gone, a new material existence, rescued from disappearance, generating a new presence through precise interventions.