She exclaimed: “the Alps can be photographed”, was a group exhibition concerning the history of mountain photography, and more specifically, the first photograph ever taken of a mountain. It was about a human-nature relationship. Alternately nature or man in the dominant role. Trying to capture the greatness of nature within a particular image was once totally unthinkable, but is a normality today. Thus, on August 19, 1850, upon seeing the first developed negatives of the Scheuchzerhorn, the photographer Camille Bernabé exclaimed, “The Alps can be photographed!” (Thomas Crauwels, z.d) THE ARTICLE
the space: CROXHAPOX
My works:
Sherpa (2024): one-channel video installation, stereo output from work: QUECHUA
QUECHUA (2024): sheet metal, rivets, steel, wheels, wind ropes, hooks, tape, speakers, bolts, nuts, audio cables
The work QUECHUA is a performative object to lie in and speak through, with two speakers placed on a kind of chimney. The work affects the duality between public space and private space, which is typical of a tent. It also plays with the nomadic aspect of a tent because it is constructed entirely of steel. In ‘Sherpa’ I have reduced this sheet steel tent to exactly 1/6 scale, in order to create a portable version. I then carried this on my head to the top of the Rohrkopf, a mountain belonging to the Ammergau Alps close to Schwangau, Germany. After hiking 3 hours to this summit, I secured this miniature tent to the ground with small stakes and tiny storm ropes, and then left it there.
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