Mercredi 25 Mars 2015 17:09:24 par Paulina Gautier-mons dans Expositions

Greenland’s light and it’s coastline, the primeval forests of Malaysia and Indonesia or the architecture of Singapore - Olaf Otto Becker’s photographic expeditions are a search for traces in compelling landscapes.

The pictures in "Broken Line" (2007) show a seemingly unaffected landscape, the traces of human intervention barely visible on closer inspection. In the second series, "Above Zero" (2009), the images already show the consequences of industrial growth in western societies quite plainly - new streams and rivers spring from Greenland’s sooted snowscape and dig deep trenches into the ice.

In his recent work, "Reading the Landscape" (2014), Olaf Otto Becker goes one step further, he takes the viewer from the unaffected primeval forests of Malaysia and Indonesia into the fire-cleared landscape and finally, in his urban landscapes, shows how humans are replicating what was just destroyed in order to occupy a copy of their original habitat.