Landscape - Florence Iff (Svizzera)

Post Arcadia 5 di Florence Iff

Vincitrice nella categoria Paesaggio

The photographs show different variations of artificial indoor displays such as dioramas in various museums of natural history, indoor garden shows, zoos and botanical gardens.

The depicted images are part of a long term project on the concept of landscape and its representation. Displayed are different variations and resulting or implicated aspects of it. The main subject is the duplication of landscape as aestheticised nature in the real world and the depiction of nature in art photography. Nature is increasingly being laid out in an artificial manner. Its domestication encompasses both exterior and inner space as concepts on aesthetics. Consequently new images of nature are internalized. With this interior imagery we again create landscapes within which we physically and mentally range. But dealing with the subject of interior and exterior images on nature with the means of photography has not only a merely clarifying effect. There remains an impression of aesthetification and deception. A pictorial universe is being generated opening up interspaces.

Copyright: © Florence Iff/Courtesy Sony World Photography Awards 2011