Film, Olympus OM-1.

Love ties together rivers and reeds, seed

and snow. Cedar Waxwing intoxicated

on fermentation. I pray to your swerve

and the way you climb trees in the winter

without slipping. I slip and slide behind

landscape studies (2020)

Room Portraits | Menno Aden

Through challenging camera angles Menno Aden abstracts most familiar actual living environments and public interiors into flattened two-dimensional scale models. A camera that the artist installed on the ceiling of various rooms takes pictures downwards of the interiors. The resulting images lay out space in symmetrical compositions that look like assemblages stripped off any kind of objectivity. The views into private homes and secret retreats bring up associations of the ubiquitous observation camera. The notion of surveillance is systematically played out by the artist to hint at society’s voyeuristic urge that popular culture has made mainstream.

my dreamland

Feb 7, 2021