Project Space.

For my project space, Gregor Morrison and myself are looking at how we experience the landscape.


Conventional Landscape Photography tends to over-whelm place with image. It is usually presented in fragments rather than grouded sequences. Once wrenched from its context, the image, no matter how well intentioned or well researched, floats off into artland. In exhibitions of unrelated or loosely related landscapes with vague or lyrical titles identifying the subject or perhaps the sight, a false image of unity is lifted from a fragmented world. No matter how aesthetically pleasing the results may be, places are boiled down into comodities. The photographer, having 'been there', feels she's captured the place, but communicating it is anothe matter altogether. Cryptic titles and captions, or none at all, further distance the viewer from the subject by transforming it into a non-referential object. Juxtaposition of two or more images sometimes proves a compelling strategy for making points; so do collage, aerial views, inventive installations, handwritten or autobiographical captions, names, dates, times - bits of information that bring the viewer closer to the image, traces of the awe and delight(of horror and discomfort) of being there.
lucy Lippard - The lure of the Local(New york, the new press, 1997)