"...no place on earth seems to keep a secret anymore and the perpetual update promises us even a cleaner adventure into the wildest synthetic environments..." The Unknown Universal Series presents large scale prints showing the most extreme confrontations with inner human nature from the perspective of mainstream spectacular imagery. As a nerd would say: "the last frontier... or when being lost at night in the forest seems to be real fun, I dare to try, why not?... or pay 60,000eu to climb the highest mountains on earth." The pictures show dramatic computer generated landscapes composed of historically referred data and almost invisible anomalies which lead to the nature of the image itself, it's meaning as an icon and as a lie. Noise in the imagery become the extra step which shows the path to mystery...
140.1 × 102.6 × 5 cm
c-print on 5 cm black plexi board
Exhibited in At My Limit : In the Name of Kernel!
The Kernel Peak: At my Limit (Unknown Universal Series) (2008)
Joan Leandre
