“Waiting Land” is at once place and condition. It manifests through poor spatial formations and low-res visuals. It shows the actual landscape as the image of the world and what happens in it. Over time, landscape has transformed from a specific and framed image or representation to an immersive rendering as an all encompassing ambience. Our view of landscape has also expanded — not necessarily in precision (which, no doubt, would have been a desirable effect), but in a kaleidoscope-like manner. Now, landscape combines narrations, media and technologies, generating speculation, orientation and information.
Waiting land
The Campo gallery in Rome shows a series of collages, drawings, photographs, scaled replica, multiples, and a story board as comments on the landscape we live in.
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- 04 July 2017
- Rome
“Waiting Land” is an occasion to look at landscape in the ‘real’ world. “Waiting Land” is a stub. It’s an environment that stands in for some other functionality or place. A stub can simulate both behavior and form. It can follow a procedure. It can temporarily substitute something yet to happen. This stub is a testing ground: for the next natural onslaught, the next carcass to rise from oblivion, the inevitable amnesty, the transformation of concrete to gold—basic alchemy. Started in 2001, “Waiting Land” is an ongoing series of collages, drawings, photographs, scaled replica, multiples, moving images, and a story board as comments on an environment we live in.
until 21 July 2017
Karen Lohrmann and Stefano de Martino. Waiting Land
Campo
via della Marrana 94, Rome