| The video landscape is generated out of photographs taken in the Rocky Mountains. This landscape should be well known to anyone who was culturally socialized by TV and movies in the second half of the 20th century. Confronted with the actual landscape for the first time, one can easily get the impression of having been there before. Out of this notion the landscape is depicted here as scenery of a western movie, as backdrop for any action possible. It is photographed in such a general way that the viewer is able to recognize her own knowledge and experiences in the images. The images are transfered to the media they are best known from: television. One can let the images pass by just like on a train ride – an occasion on which they have been taken. The viewer can fill the images with her own associations and memories. The work deals with questions on what kind of images can still be shown today and which mental images the viewer has. How do we look at images and how do we look on things that we already think to know? |