Jane Prophet
dal 10/1/2003 al 16/3/2003
Segnalato da
10/1/2003
Jane Prophet
Tullie House Museum, Carlisle
Decoy is screen based digital work reflecting on the politics of landscape, construction and ownership.
DECOY
Part of PICTURESQUE
Decoy is screen based digital work reflecting on the politics of landscape,
construction and ownership.
Drawing on works by painters such as Gainsborough and Poussin as well as the
creations of landscape designers Humphrey Repton and Capability Brown,
Decoy consists of a series of animated digital paintings, displayed on
plasma-screens, in which subtly evolving fractal landscapes are combined
with photographic images of the views of the grounds of various country
houses.
This quintessentially English, Arcadian vista has entered the popular
imagination as an embodiment of Nature and the Natural, yet it is almost
entirely artificial in its construction. By combining these vistas with
evolving simulated landscapes, Prophet unearths the artificiality of each
Landscape¹s past, either by returning the setting to a closer approximation
of wild nature, or by allowing the viewer to project ahead into the
future, according to different growth and planting patterns.
The painterly texture of these sequences, allied to their presentation on
plasma screens, alludes to an English landscape tradition of the picturesque
and the sublime, whilst highlighting the capacity of digital technology to
create a vision of a landscape entirely under human control.
Decoy is a Film and Video Umbrella Touring Exhibition.
Supported by the National Touring Programme of the Arts Council of England
and East England Arts.
In the image: landscape from 'technosphere'
Tullie House Art Gallery
Castle Street, Carlisle, CA3 8TP
T 01228 534781