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cont. Exhibition: Among the Trees

Analysis of Tacita Dean's 'Crowhurst II, 2007', Thomas Struth's 'Paradise 13, 1999' and Mariele Neudecker' 'And Then the World Changed Colour: Breathing Yellow, 2019':

 

Crowhurst II:

> Ominous especially as backdrop is blurred with translucent white gouache highlighting shape of tree - ghostly visible

> Emotive rather than theoretical connotations

> Sense of loss

 

Paradise 13:

> Viewer gets lost in forest due to detail and lack of focus

> Feeling of helplessness - branches and leaves create dense texture preventing us seeing horizon and depth of landscape

> Lack of hierarchy

> Presents kind of silence that can be listened to for a long time

> Captures presence of the unconscious in the visible

 

Breathing Yellow:

> First encounter: I ended up mentally inhabiting the space as I'm drawn to the water, air and yellow inside

> Human interest element in the scene - human residue that suggests someone has been in the space

> Intention of ensuring viewer is looking at a landscape, 'a cultural human space' and not an untouched bit of nature

> Encapsulates dystopian reality - dusty yellow recreates misty/ foggy natural phenomenon but appears artificial and unsafe

> Breathing yellow: immerses one to become part of the air and water leading to an odd analogy that people can engage with

> Subjective experience

 

 

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Uploaded on March 28, 2020
Taken on March 28, 2020