Non-existent Landscapes or simulations of the unreal"
In essence, we possess a localized concept of existence, but our contemporary times push us further into a state of being where the concept of space becomes an extinct concept, without choice we find ourselves becoming residents of this "virtual" space. Virtual objects begin to carry the weight, or in other words contain the power of the real. In this show we are now faced with these virtual spaces interpreted and represented through the use of a neo-romantic landscape. One could hypothesize that we are now entering an age where it will be impossible to distinguish between the empirical symbolism of reality and the simulation. In the beginning where the simulation was only a model for reality, it has now truly become reality and consequently the catalyst for this exhibit. The "inter-mediatic" symbolical world of today stops becoming a critique and as the simulation theory of Baudrillard postulates begins to gain substance through its models and replicas, finds itself transformed into a state of hyperrealism. One could say that these landscapes are the representations of a lost reality and there are convincing ideological symbols of romantic hyperrealism. Because the time that is referred to is no longer now, the landscape is transformed, changed and subservient before time. The modern residents of this "virtual" space need find their reality in these imagined hyper realistic landscapes.