Terra Cibus
When we take a closer look, a new world seems to emerge. Or do we find the landscapes that we already know?
BUFFERING
a growing collection of found contemporary landscape works.
Filed underphotography
Invasion
Uranium
Moon
Painting by Julius Grimm (in 1888). If lit from the right angle, the relief of the paint created the shadows of the lunar cliffs.
Primates
via rubenbrulat.com
Narrowing the streets in Los Angeles
In Los Angeles car is king. David Yoon doesn't like that. He is busy narrowing down street after street.
An attempt to make the city more picturesque? Is it a fictionalization or a whish to go back to a human scale?
Channeling
Toshio Shibata creates photographic landscape works. His pictures are big and crisp, but unless the detail it's hard to find where and how the picture is taken and what is seen. It not only seems to be an intriguing blend of man made structures and nature, but the images also contain the photographic 'standstill', motion and a strong element of direction (which element is channeling the other).
Human Nature
Ariana, The last tour & Travelling Amazonia
The French artist Marine Hugonnier made three video works that show the artist’s exploration of the entanglement between history, geography and its representation. The question of ‘viewpoint’ is addressed in a different way in all three of the films.
Ariana (2003)
Ariana questions the implications of the panoramic shot, its relation to political power, and at the same time tells the story of a trip and an undertaking that was never completed. Its failure is the film’s central theme.
The last tour (2004)
The Last Tour is a fiction in the near future, showing the ‘last’ voyage in a hot air balloon over the Matterhorn national Park. The film seems to introduce the moment that scenic outings will defintively belong to the past, at “the end of the society of the spectacle”.
Travelling Amazonia (2006)
The film’s narrative is centered around the Transamazonia highway, a massive project devised by the Brazilian government in the seventies to establish a route that would bisect the Amazon forest and connect the Atlantic and the Pacific coasts. The objective of Hugonnier and her team is to build a dolly and tracks with the same materials as were employed in building the highway. The construction of the Transamazonia generated an industry around the extraction of natural resources like metal, wood and rubber. Hugonnier and her team make use of these materials to film upon the very same road a 'travelling shot', which re-enacts the linearity of the Transamazonia highway and which recalls the pioneering ideals that this colonialist project embodied.
text via kunsthalle-bern.ch
images from artnet.com
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