how is the crater, the image

Oliver Hull

Opening 02.08.18 6-8pm
Artist Talks 24.08.18 6-7pm

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In early 2015 I found a listing on Ebay selling sand from the Wolfe Creek Meteorite Crater as a prop from the 2005 feature film Wolf Creek. I purchased the sand and set up a Skype interview with the sellers.They were backpackers travelling around Australia who had decided to visit the crater after seeing the film. In describing their experience of the crater, the backpackers frequently attempted to articulate a feeling of dissonance, where they felt awkwardly caught between the film’s representations of a landscape that they were experiencing first-hand. One of the backpackers, Arnaud, described this perfectly when he stumbled mid-sentence saying, “how is the crater, the image?”

The exhibition “how is the crater, the image”’ is concerned with the affect of generic, populist and widely disseminated imagery on sublime landscapes.The exhibition considers the push and pull between images and objects as they relate to landscapes colonised by their image, including the Wolfe Creek Crater and the Marianas Trench.