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P for Perspective
The title 鈥淧鈥� for Perspective鈥� is inspired by the Danish seismologist and geophysicist Inge Lehmann (1888-1993). Lehmann was unique; a passionate scientist whose work and private life merged into a singular and dedicated vision, focused on the reading and understanding of the forces of the inner Earth. Lehmann had a particular talent for examining seismographic registrations of earthquakes and movements from within the planet. Her readings were based as much on idiosyncratic intuition and personal interpretation, as they were on rational and categorical analyses. A different type of imagination was needed to challenge the status quo, and dream up a new understanding of the world.
P鈥� for Perspective looks at shifting scientific viewpoints and new cultural attitudes in our contemporary time. A volatile era characterised by a massive and constant flow of information and knowledge sharing. In a cyclical manner, the exhibition considers how such input is initially generated, mediated, and absorbed, and how it might end up being reexamined and used anew. Through crisis and triumph, the mundane, the enlightened and the cosmic, artworks function as containers that capture and materialise the energy of a certain period or a mere fleeting moment in that time. They signify the presence of a conscious observation.
The exhibition portrays life in motion, as images, objects and time-lapses; by means of incorporating both microscopic and macroscopic and internal and external optics, by reaching into ourselves and into the planet, and by stretching our imagination and our technology into the cosmos. As we traverse the globe and its elements, we bind our individual bodies to its physical dimensions across widely dispersed coordinates and increments of time, while a globalised network can seem to exponentially bring us closer to a common unified mind and core.
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The title 鈥淧鈥� for Perspective鈥� is inspired by the Danish seismologist and geophysicist Inge Lehmann (1888-1993). Lehmann was unique; a passionate scientist whose work and private life merged into a singular and dedicated vision, focused on the reading and understanding of the forces of the inner Earth. Lehmann had a particular talent for examining seismographic registrations of earthquakes and movements from within the planet. Her readings were based as much on idiosyncratic intuition and personal interpretation, as they were on rational and categorical analyses. A different type of imagination was needed to challenge the status quo, and dream up a new understanding of the world.
P鈥� for Perspective looks at shifting scientific viewpoints and new cultural attitudes in our contemporary time. A volatile era characterised by a massive and constant flow of information and knowledge sharing. In a cyclical manner, the exhibition considers how such input is initially generated, mediated, and absorbed, and how it might end up being reexamined and used anew. Through crisis and triumph, the mundane, the enlightened and the cosmic, artworks function as containers that capture and materialise the energy of a certain period or a mere fleeting moment in that time. They signify the presence of a conscious observation.
The exhibition portrays life in motion, as images, objects and time-lapses; by means of incorporating both microscopic and macroscopic and internal and external optics, by reaching into ourselves and into the planet, and by stretching our imagination and our technology into the cosmos. As we traverse the globe and its elements, we bind our individual bodies to its physical dimensions across widely dispersed coordinates and increments of time, while a globalised network can seem to exponentially bring us closer to a common unified mind and core.
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The title 鈥淧鈥� for Perspective鈥� is inspired by the Danish seismologist and geophysicist Inge Lehmann (1888-1993).
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