This Land Is Your Land
2013
Installation built at Gallery KHM, Malmø (SE).
Room size approximately 80 m2.
(The lighting was adjusted to make the documentation possible, the installation is originally much darker.)
List of works:
Carclaze Tin Mine in Cornwall, 1840
7 x 12 cm, etching by Thomas Allam
Carclaze Tin Mine in Cornwall 1840, 2013
6 x 4 x 2 m.
Scenographic model of etching.
Oil on plywood, wood, 2 programmed lights.
Narcissus
Terex, a portrait of Tyrannosaurus Rex, 2013
Projection: 4.6 x 2.6m, HD Video 7 min
The first thing you see is an etching of a mining landscape from 1840. You then proceed through a curtain and in to a dark room. In front of you is the backsides of a set and a large screen. You then find your way through the layers of scenography until you reach a specific vista point from which you can overlook the large 3d model of the etching. The scenography is lit by timed lights, and as the lights slowly dim out, the video starts on the screen mounted behind the landscape.
The video shows a portrait of a giant excavator that works at the bottom of an iron mine. The machine, named Terex, moves like a dinosaur, weighs 400 tons and carries 80 tons in each load. It is positioned so that it looks like it eats into the scenery. The soundtrack is very loud and the bass vibrates and resounds in the floor and the walls. After seven minutes the film is over and the lights dim back up. You can now study the landscape in full light until it dims out again and the video resumes.
Room size approximately 80 m2.
(The lighting was adjusted to make the documentation possible, the installation is originally much darker.)
List of works:
Carclaze Tin Mine in Cornwall, 1840
7 x 12 cm, etching by Thomas Allam
Carclaze Tin Mine in Cornwall 1840, 2013
6 x 4 x 2 m.
Scenographic model of etching.
Oil on plywood, wood, 2 programmed lights.
Narcissus
Terex, a portrait of Tyrannosaurus Rex, 2013
Projection: 4.6 x 2.6m, HD Video 7 min
The first thing you see is an etching of a mining landscape from 1840. You then proceed through a curtain and in to a dark room. In front of you is the backsides of a set and a large screen. You then find your way through the layers of scenography until you reach a specific vista point from which you can overlook the large 3d model of the etching. The scenography is lit by timed lights, and as the lights slowly dim out, the video starts on the screen mounted behind the landscape.
The video shows a portrait of a giant excavator that works at the bottom of an iron mine. The machine, named Terex, moves like a dinosaur, weighs 400 tons and carries 80 tons in each load. It is positioned so that it looks like it eats into the scenery. The soundtrack is very loud and the bass vibrates and resounds in the floor and the walls. After seven minutes the film is over and the lights dim back up. You can now study the landscape in full light until it dims out again and the video resumes.
To see an excerpt of the video, press HERE.
