مواقع الظلّ 2

رداً على تطور التصوير الفوتوغرافي الجوي خلال الحرب العالمية الأولى، وما تلا ذلك من وسائل الاستطلاع الجوي عبر الأقمار الاصطناعية، والتي استعملت في حرب "عاصفة الصحراء" و"حرب الخليج" عامي 1991 و2003.

Shadow Sites II and its ‘sister’ Shadow Sites I are both films that adopt the vantage point of aerial reconnaissance missions while taking an altogether different viewpoint of the ground surveyed. Seen from above, the landscape appears abstracted, its buildings flattened and its inhabitants invisible to the human eye. Only when the sun is at its lowest point do features such as archaeological sites and settlements come to light. Much like a photographic plate, such 'shadow sites' map the latent images held on the surface of the earth Made exclusively from high resolution photographs, Shadow Sites II telescopes the viewer from one image into the next, locking onto each site and appearing to burrow into the earth. Landscapes disappear and reappear as one image slowly dissolves into another, like a mineshaft tunneling deep into the earth and excavating what cannot otherwise be seen on the ground. 2013 شارك هذا المشروع في بينالي الشارقة 11 Courtesy of the Artist and Abraaj Capital Art Prize. Abraaj Capital and Fondation Louis Vuitton pour la Création Collections