Nati Shamia Opher | landEscape
landEscape, installation
Floor tiles joined by truncated zap straps generate a landscape imprisoned within the concrete frame of the Museum’s courtyard. It is a topographical layout simulating the wilderness of a mountainous desert, alluding to a Zen garden. A close look reveals that the landscape is boundless. Another image emerging from the work, borrowed from the digital world, is the view of the object at low resolution. The square format of the floor tiles recalls pixels in low density, where the image seems to be lost, disrupting the understanding of the visible.
Most of all, the landscape of the “land” appears scarred, as if it were stitched together with raw seams concealing open wounds. It is a patched up land, its pieces held together artificially. The landscape scraps are tied together rigidly, albeit feebly, as if they were about to come unstitched again.