Mimesis
©2009
My long-term project investigates the concept of landscape and its representation. I explore how the duplication of landscape as aestheticized nature in the real world intertwines with the depiction of nature in art photography.
Nature is increasingly arranged in an artificial manner. Its domestication encompasses both exterior and inner space as aesthetic concepts. New images of nature are internalized, and through this interior imagery, we create landscapes within which we physically and mentally range.
Spaces of artificial environment, zones of attraction, and splinter development are becoming increasingly familiar, merging constantly with the remaining rural and suburban landscape. In Switzerland, uncontrolled development has been recognized as an escalating problem across ecological, socio-cultural, and political dimensions.
Yet engaging with interior and exterior images of nature through photography produces not only clarification. An impression of aestheticization and deception persists. A pictorial universe emerges, opening up interspaces.
