March 2010 / Search for Landscapes
Vesna Pavlovic
Kodachrome Travels, 2010
From Search for Landscapes series
Endura metallic color print
24 x 30 inches
Vesna Pavlovic
Photographic Cues, 2010
From Search for Landscapes series
Archival ink-jet print
Size variable
Nicholas Nyland
Study for wall drawing, 2010
Ink on paper
Vesna Pavlovic
259, 2010
From Search for Landscapes series
Endura metallic color print
24 x 30 inches
Vesna Pavlovic and Nicholas Nyland
Search for Landscapes
March 03 – 27, 2010
This collaborative installation explores the ideas of travel and transformation of landscape through representation and conditions of seeing. The "Search for Landscapes" project develops around a group of found vintage slides, which depict one family's travels around the world in the 1960s. While looking into materiality and physicality of these objects, the artists are also exploring the history of travel, visual tourism, and the relationship we have to the culture and history of particular tourist sites.
Essay on the artists’ collaboration:
Decoys
Essay by Marisa C. Sánchez, Assistant Curator of Modern and Contemporary, Seattle Art Museum
Press for Search for Landscapes:
Last Resort: The Disturbing, Rich Banality of Tourist Pictures.
Article by Jen Graves. The Stranger, March 2010.