Post Arcadia
©2011
This project examines the domestication of nature as an aesthetic concept spanning exterior and interior space. Landscape is fundamentally a construct, originating in Renaissance painting and industrialization—an image of an idea reproduced photographically and internalized as mental territory.
Artificial environments and fragmented development increasingly merge with rural and suburban landscapes.
In Switzerland, uncontrolled development presents growing ecological, socio-cultural, and political challenges that inform both my artistic practice and teaching.
Simulations of nature pervade everyday life across educational, scientific, recreational, and economic contexts. They shape our understanding of nature while reinforcing designed environments. The line between image, copy, representation, simulation, and simulacrum grows increasingly blurred.
Post Arcadia reflects these phenomena in content and form, operating at the intersection of landscape and photography.
