When the shutter is released the negative briefly inhabits the captured
site in the here, and yet time acts upon it and, within an instant, it is there
no longer. Instead, it has flashed
out of the past into the viewer’s realm, pushed out of its interval in time and
re-placed. Whilst the viewer is
acting their gaze upon it, the image could inhabit anywhere, blending
imagination with experience to create a projection, a projection that, due to
the fluid nature of the image itself is subject to change. When the viewer is no longer looking,
the site is nowhere; it does not exist; it inhabits an interval once again.
The Farm plays the themes of absence and presence, the capabilities of a site to be here, anywhere and nowhere and the fluidity of time against each other. Inspired by Walter Benjamin’s ideas of The Angel of History, Constellations and Denkbild, The Farm attempts to deconstruct the fallacy of the imaged site, and replace it in response to contemporary criticism of landscape, space and place.
The Farm plays the themes of absence and presence, the capabilities of a site to be here, anywhere and nowhere and the fluidity of time against each other. Inspired by Walter Benjamin’s ideas of The Angel of History, Constellations and Denkbild, The Farm attempts to deconstruct the fallacy of the imaged site, and replace it in response to contemporary criticism of landscape, space and place.
