Interzones or territories, disparate and similar, connected to each other by conducting images and by the energy transmitted through the filmed landscapes. The zones are combining, overlapping, opposing, creating dynamics. They are parasitized and interdependent. Connections occur. Various layers follow one another in a nonlinear way. Abstractions highlight perception, they affect and lead to an unreality that is confronted with the filmed real space. The intensity of the sensations felt in sight of the Icelandic landscapes is accentuated. Reflection on the duality and reciprocity between perception and apperception of a psychological and empirical point of view based on the senses. […]
Artists-in-Residence
Suspending plains
Welcome to the presentation of experiments by Nora Mertes at the Bookshop-projectspace Thursday January 21, from 20.00 -22.00. Nora Mertes researches the relationship between the human body and material in her surroundings. While reflecting upon it she uses her hands and body to form and reshape matter.In what ways can she, with the sole use of her body, manipulate a material? In Seydisfjordur Nora Mertes worked with plaster, sheets of metal and plastic, clay and oily black ink. Her sculptures resonate the characteristics of the surrounding landscape both in a physical as well as in a visual manner: the forms are […]