Ahmed Ozsever: River, Red
New Harmony Gallery of Contemporary Art, University of Southern Indiana is proud to present River, Red, featuring photography by Indiana artist, Ahmed Ozsever.
Ahmed Ozsever uses photography and data visualization to reflect on ideas of permanence and transformation within the landscape. In River, Red, Ozsever documents moments along the Red River, is a river that flows through the western and southern United States. This river, which legally served as a line between Texas and Oklahoma, has shifted and changed over the years due to both natural and human-made factors. Ozsever鈥檚 suite of images, along with portrayals of data about the Red River鈥檚 moments, allow for an examination of the precarity of liminal borders.
Photographs in River, Red depict landscapes of the Red River, including natural materials like trees, weeds, and grasses. The photographs also focus on the remnants of where the stream was, as can be seen in expanses of sandy dunes, places where the water had carved away at the bank and then receded, and cracked and dried riverbed speckled with barren tree branches. There are also human-made structures spotted throughout the photographs, highlighting where bridges, signage, and fencing might not serve the purpose they once had. Accompanying data visualizations showing overlays of river movement and metrics of fluctuation give added context to the Red River鈥檚 movement patterns.
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New Harmony Gallery of Contemporary Art, University of Southern Indiana is proud to present River, Red, featuring photography by Indiana artist, Ahmed Ozsever.
Ahmed Ozsever uses photography and data visualization to reflect on ideas of permanence and transformation within the landscape. In River, Red, Ozsever documents moments along the Red River, is a river that flows through the western and southern United States. This river, which legally served as a line between Texas and Oklahoma, has shifted and changed over the years due to both natural and human-made factors. Ozsever鈥檚 suite of images, along with portrayals of data about the Red River鈥檚 moments, allow for an examination of the precarity of liminal borders.
Photographs in River, Red depict landscapes of the Red River, including natural materials like trees, weeds, and grasses. The photographs also focus on the remnants of where the stream was, as can be seen in expanses of sandy dunes, places where the water had carved away at the bank and then receded, and cracked and dried riverbed speckled with barren tree branches. There are also human-made structures spotted throughout the photographs, highlighting where bridges, signage, and fencing might not serve the purpose they once had. Accompanying data visualizations showing overlays of river movement and metrics of fluctuation give added context to the Red River鈥檚 movement patterns.
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