Just out! a review by Robin Laurence on Kelly Richardson at the - TopicsExpress



          

Just out! a review by Robin Laurence on Kelly Richardson at the CAG. Curiosity, awe, terror—Kelly Richardson’s “hyper-real” video installations stimulate a range of responses from viewers. In her eerie conjoining of documentary footage and sci-fi–style digital effects, Richardson updates Romantic landscape traditions and their notions of the sublime, especially the “apocalyptic sublime” of 19th-century British painter John Martin. Where Martin’s dire fantasies played on fears of the industrial revolution, Richardson’s desolate landscapes propose a future in which it’s possible that environmental catastrophe has depopulated the Earth. Or perhaps we’re looking at other planets entirely, scenes of future, failed colonization. Possible, perhaps, and maybe abound in discussions of Richardson’s videos, which are ambiguous and open-ended, inviting any number of interpretations. Kelly Richardson
Posted on: Wed, 13 Aug 2014 21:43:41 +0000

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