#shapeofalake, 2016
installation view
#shapeofalake, 2016
varnished steel
2064 x 86 x 2mm
shapeofalake, 2016
adhesive foil on postcard (15 x)
14,8 x 10,5 cm each
The site-specific work #shapeofalake (2016) explores the perception of natural color gradients in landscapes while referencing the emergence of a digital color culture. The work combines a steel object, shaped after a nearby lake and coated in flip-flop automotive paint, with sixteen historical black-and-white postcards from the area, over whose organic forms digitally exaggerated color gradients are applied; it shows different modes of landscape representation and reflects on the blurring between natural and digitally mediated perception. Exhibited at Sägewerk, Neukirchen Austria, 2016.