CUT AERIALS

CUT AERIALS

 

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

Cut Aerial 3 (detail)

Cut Aerial 4 (USA) (2001) Cut-out, laminated Lamda print. Pinned to wall. 125cm x 200cm

CUT AERIALS

In these works comprising cut-out aerial photographs of the USA, I cut the land away with a knife. What remains is a network of lines and marks left by irrigation systems, clouds, roads, crop rotation and cloud shadows.

LANDSCAPE TRAUMA IN THE AGE OF SCOPOPHILIA

LANDSCAPE TRAUMA IN THE AGE OF SCOPOPHILIA

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.

CLOUDGRIDS

CLOUDGRIDS

Cloudgrids 1 (2001) (galerie Ron Mandos, Rotterdam) Cut-out b/w silkscreen prints on paper. Individual images approx. 90cm x 60cm. Total area approx: 15m x 3.5m.

Cloudgrids 1 (2001)

Cloudgrids 1 Detail (2001) Photo: Hans Wilschut

Cloudgrids 3 (2002) Cut-out b/w silkscreen prints on paper. Individual images approx. 90cm x 60cm. Total area approx: 15m x 3.5m.

Cloudgrids 3 (2002) detail

Cloudgrids 3 (2002) detail

CLOUDGRIDS

The aerial photographs used in Cloudgrids were taken over the USA in 1999 on a flight between New York and Los Angeles. The clouds and their shadows seemed to be plotted onto the grid of the Midwest.
The photographs were enlarged, divided into sections and then screen-printed in black on white paper. I then cut away the land from each image section, leaving behind the lines of human and geological marks in the land, the white clouds and their dark shadows.
Cloudgrids are organised into different constellations for each installation, each of which sets up new ‘narrative strands’ within the work and occupies space in a different way. Some have have also been sold as individually framed images.

See Mireille Lavoie’s essay on the installation Cloudgrids 3 in Quebec City for a more detailed reading.