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Back in Five Minutes is a short self contained ?art world thriller? with no resolution. A curator visits an artist?s studio and finds it empty, the only reminder of the artist, apart from their work, is their mobile phone and a note saying that they have gone to get milk and biscuits and will return shortly. The curator explores the studio with a sense of invasiveness and finally comes across a bag with newly bought milk and biscuits. Later on in a bed room conversation the curator speculates that the studio visit was in fact a staged act orchestrated by the artist in order to make the curator part of her work. His partner suggest that something might have really happened to the artist and that they should contact the gallery. Back in Five Minutes explores the potentially threatening gap between life and art, private and the professional suspicions, the status of object-based art versus performative art, and power dynamics in the art world.

Oreet Ashery is a London based interdisciplinary artist working in live art, video, 2-D image making, objects, text and the internet. Her live art work tends to take the form of an interdisciplinary site specific event with audiences as participants. The work looks at personal politics and its complex relationship to social realities. Ashery is interested in intersection of life and art, the intimate and the professional. Ashery`s work has been shown extensively in the UK and internationally in galleries, museums, cinemas, the streets, and site-specific locations. Her work has been reviewed and discussed in many art, culture, and academic magazines as well as books. http://oreetashery.net