Artists insight: Ori Gersht, Seduced by Art: Photography Past and Present, The National Gallery

Breathless and deadly: contemporary photographer Ori Gersht presents his take on Francisco de Zurbarán s stirring still life, A Cup of Water and a Rose. Join the artist as he examines the attraction and repulsion of what is, for him, the most masterly still life in art history. Ori Gersht explores still life in works that feature in the exhibition Seduced by Art: Photography Past and Present. In these photographic and film pieces, classic floral arrangements are frozen and then blown up, leaving only