In the Roaring Garden
USA 2014
Based on the architectural outline of American transcendentalist Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862), the artist William Lamson built a floating blockhouse which acts as a camera obscura.
Thoreau is widely known for the work Walden, or Life in the Woods, a diary of his two-year long escape from the emergence of industrialization in search for a deeper understanding of the changing society through personal introspection. The camera obscura includes a re-imagined cabin’s interior in which merging with nature can be seen in a literal sense: the projected images of the environment interact with the symbols of man’s action.
William Lamson *1977, lives and works in New York, USA
www.williamlamson.com
The on-going screening series Phantom Horizons presents digital as well as analogue works that question the paradigm of linear perspective, seeking for a new kind of “status perspective” [Bedeutungsperspektive]. The latter was a development of medieval painting, in which the size of figures is determined by their hierarchical significance. Extending this approach with deconstructivistic ideas and contemporary possibilities of film creation, the presented works open up multifaceted, unseen horizons.
Curated by Robert Seidel | www.robertseidel.com
