Paco das Artes: solo show

The solo show Green and Pleasant Land was exhibited at Paco das Artes along side the Sao Paulo Bienal. Paço das Artes is a center for contemporary art, directed by the curator Daniela Bousso, who curated the Parallel exhibition at the Bienal in 2006. Green and Pleasant Land was part of an exchnage between Paco das Artes and ROOM artspace in Bristol, England. The show brought together three related landscape works:
The Blot series: Four large “strangely beautiful” (Bristol Evening Post) photographic landscape prints. These include the contrasting landscapes of The Lafarge Exshaw aggregate plant on the shore of Lac des Arc, Alberta, Canada, and the Corus steelworks at Port Talbot, Wales. This developing series combines reflecting pools and natural sublime landscapes with icons of the industrial or technological sublime.

Model Landscapes: In contrast to her large installations, these miniature landscapes are small object based vignettes, subject to surveillance by cameras.

Decoy: Drawing on works by painters such as Gainsborough and Poussin as well as the creations of landscape designers Humphry Repton and "Capability" Brown, this DVD presents a series of animated digital "paintings", displayed on a plasma-screen, in which subtly evolving fractal landscapes are combined with photographic images of the views of the grounds of English country houses.

 

Images of the exhibition: 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 artworks main menu