When the land was turned
into a science of nature
and nature turned into a place,
an emptiness to be filled
with objects and things
grew across the landscaped space.
That emptiness meant
to present and to polish
the image of the untouched,
to frame onto nature a meaninglessness
and preserve what was already lost.
This series addresses the power of mis/representation and erasure as well as ways of seeing and imagining land and space.
Deconstructing and unveiling the epistemic and aesthetic traditions upon which we’ve built our relationship to nature, i.e. the ways in which we as humans see, represent, organise, manage and exploit the nonhuman in a capitalist and post- or rather neocolonial world.
Original photographs first published in: “Die Deutschen Kolonien”, Carl Weller Verlag für Farbfotografie, 1910 Berlin.
mosaic
matrix
corridors
mirrors