Shot in Shiretoko National Park in the far north of Japan, and within watchful radius of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear reactor, Karen Kramer’s The Eye That Articulates Belongs on Land offsets beguiling images of unspoilt nature with graphic visual evidence of the ‘re-wilding’ of the landscape around the atomic plant since particular areas became off-limits to human access. Unseduced by romantic notions of wild nature as a wellspring of recovery or transformation, Kramer’s film is a reminder of how our perceptions of the natural environment are often deeply subjective, and prone to being clouded by myth, or partial knowledge.
The Eye That Articulates Belongs on Land
Karen Kramer
Exhibition
Karen Kramer
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28 September 2017 – 21 October 2017
The Room, Lisbon
Rua do Açucar 76A - Warehouse 26
Open by appointment
The Eye That Articulates Belongs on Land was commissioned for the Jerwood/FVU Awards: Borrowed Time, a collaboration between Jerwood Charitable Foundation and FVU, in association with CCA, Glasgow and University of East London, School of Arts and Digital Industries. Supported by The Great Britain Sasakawa Foundation. FVU is supported by Arts Council England.
Field research in Japan which resulted in Karen Kramer's proposal for The Eye That Articulates Belongs On Land was supported by Arts Catalyst and NPO S-Air.