"Wildnis #177"

C-print mounted on plastic board, diasec

signed, titled, dated and numbered (ink) on mount verso

I show the wilderness, the idea of unlimited wild growth: tangled, strange, ugly, impure, worthless. Local plants are brought back into consciousness. Exotic plant growth does not contribute to the food chain. Therefore, no beautifully arranged bouquets of flowers are to be seen, but what was found at the time of exposure in the appropriate place, without considering the beauty or preciousness or uniqueness of a plant. One sees below the surface; what is otherwise trampled all over reveals its basis. Sometimes, a common-or-garden piece is seen under this subjective selection.
By detaching a piece of grass from the context of nature, it is not about the beautiful representation of things or the sentimental sinking into oneself at the sight of the beauty of nature. Rather, it is about the fact that nature has succeeded for the first time with man in reflecting on itself.
(Robert Zahornicky/ translation)