Illuminated Forest creates around itself a quiet mesmerising space: The cyclical nature of the changing light combined with the minute detail of the images invoke a state of being suggestive of how we really experience the landscape and the forest: A rare, tender, lonesome, oddly suspended state at the bounds of articulation - a waking dream of a place known then lost. An experience for which there is no adequate expression in the English language: Approximated by “yearning” or “longing”, but perhaps more poetically conjured by the Portugese word “saudade”, the German “sehnsucht”, or the Japanese concept of “mono no aware”.

With thanks:


Financial & Logistical Support:

The Gen Foundation

Great Britain Sasakawa Foundation

British Council

Dirk Herbert & Nina Mensch

Michael Wollny

KAIR

ACAC


Installation venues:

super bien! Gewaechshaus fuer zeitgenoessische Kunst, Berlin (2007)

Galerie P13, Heidelberg (2007)

Aomori Contemporary Art Centre, Japan (2008)

secondhome projects, Berlin (2009)

Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena CA (2009)





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