Flight allows us to distance ourselves from the landscapes we occupy, to gain an outside view of the abstract patterns that cultures inscribe on the land, and be able to critically reflect on them. From urban centers, to logistical landscapes, to cultivated fields and remote areas, traces of urbanization permeate the globe in many different forms and intensities.Yet patterns repeat across distant and diverse geographies and cultures.The exhibition presents a series of views of landscape patterns in different regions around the globe photographed from the air. Framed through the airplane window and presented serially through the rhythmic structure of a slide projector, the images focus attention on the differentiation and sameness between the patterns inscribed on the land across different regions and geographies.The series of images invites viewers to reflect on the diminishing regional diversity of settlement patterns and the shifting relationship of contemporary cultures with the land.
Sonja Vangjeli