Cut Aerial 1, 2, 3 (USA) (2001) Landscape Trauma in the Age of Scopophilia. Autograph ABP, Café Gallery, London

Cut Aerial 1 (USA) (2001) Cut-out, laminated Lamda print. Pinned to wall. 200cm x 125cm

Cut Aerial 2 (USA) (2001) Cut-out, laminated Lamda print. Pinned to wall. 125cm x 200cm

Cut Aerial 3 (USA) (2001) Cut-out, laminated Lamda print. Pinned to wall. 125cm x 200cm

Cut Aerial 3 (detail)

LANDSCAPE TRAUMA IN THE AGE OF SCOPOPHILIA

Cafe Gallery, London / Leeds Met. University Gallery, Leeds, England (2001)

Does the term ‘landscape’ merely conjure up idyllic notions of the countryside? Or is the seemingly neverending industrial malaise in the countryside symptomatic of a broader crisis of identity that has begun to erode the distinctions between the metropolitan and the rural tradition?
Through processes of construction, destruction and reconfiguration, Landscape Trauma in the Age of Scopophilia provokes a re-examination of our relationship to landscape - be it geographical, cultural or political - by examining the interplay between these different dimensions. Rejuvenating and expanding the subject of landscape, it presents spectacular illusions of scale and space, combining the macro and the micro, the scientific and the psychic.

CURATOR: Richard Hylton.
ARTISTS: Annabel Howland, Henna Nadeem, Ingrid Pollard, Camila Sposati, The Search for Terrestrial Intelligence (S.T.I. Consortium).
CATALOGUE: ed. Richard Hylton with essay by Jorella Andrews.
Published by Autograph abp. Distributed by Cornerhouse.