He makes sculptures, films, photographs, and
works on paper based on his extensive travels, which often take him to
remote locations — his film In the Between, 2006, which focuses on the symbolic
nature of the highest train route in the world, was shot on location in China and Tibet.
Her
work is currently featured in Trouble in Paradise: Examining Discord between
Nature and Society at the Tucson Museum
of Art and will be seen at the Kunstmuseum Bonn in
Remote Proximity:
Nature in Contemporary Art, opening in September.
Taking vast,
remote landscapes and the ephemeral conditions
of nature as their sculptural canvas, these and other artists staged their own protest by rejecting traditional sculptural forms and practices, rigid modernist theory and the commercial confines
of the museum - and - gallery system to create frequently massive land art
works that heightened awareness
of our relationship with the earth and challenged accepted definitions
of art.
Of this work, Gregory Volk writes, ``... [c] onflating inside and outside space, nearness and distances, architecture and nature, a domestic setting and the vast world, contemporaneity and an immense scale of time, this is a risky, breathtaking work, and the apartment seems like a time - travelling capsule of sorts, visiting «remote pasts» as Robert Smithson once wrote, and also, perhaps, «remote futures» long after this current city has changed.&raqu
Of this
work, Gregory Volk writes, ``... [c] onflating inside and outside space, nearness and distances, architecture and
nature, a domestic setting and the vast world, contemporaneity and an immense scale
of time, this is a risky, breathtaking work, and the apartment seems like a time - travelling capsule of sorts, visiting «remote pasts» as Robert Smithson once wrote, and also, perhaps, «remote futures» long after this current city has changed.&raqu
of time, this is a risky, breathtaking
work, and the apartment seems like a time - travelling capsule
of sorts, visiting «remote pasts» as Robert Smithson once wrote, and also, perhaps, «remote futures» long after this current city has changed.&raqu
of sorts, visiting «
remote pasts» as Robert Smithson once wrote, and also, perhaps, «
remote futures» long after this current city has changed.»