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    Degrees of Remove: Landscape and Affect

    Degrees of Remove: Landscape and Affect

    Sep 7–Nov 30, 2008

    Rosa Barba, Luis Buñuel, eteam, Cyprien Gaillard, Anthony Hamboussi, Carla Herrera-Prats, Timothy Hyde, Marie Jager, Gianni Motti, Aura Rosenberg, and Oscar Tuazon
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    Degrees of Remove suggests the contemporary experience of landscape as increasingly mediated through documentation in urban societies. The works on view explore the representation of spatial constructs through fiction and affect, of allegorical remove. Curated by Sarina Basta with Fionn Meade.

    While the word "landscape" was borrowed into English from the Dutch in the 16th century in direct relationship to painting, later definitions came to associate it with vista or natural scenery, and ultimately to a more general equation of landscape with image. As mediations between landscape and the individual have evolved through the increased prominence of photography, film, and other technologies, so has the perception of what constitutes landscape. With these technologies as intermediaries, the exhibition explores related ideas of the author as viewer and the viewer as witness.

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    SculptureCenter's exhibitions and public programs are supported by The Andy Warhol Foundation for Visual Arts and The Lily Auchincloss Foundation. Special thanks to The Cultural Services of the French Embassy for assistance with artist travel related to Degrees of Remove.