Landscape and the Moving Image

To mark the publication of her latest book Landscape and the Moving Image (Intellect, 2022) artist and writer Catherine Elwes has curated this online exhibition exploring the ways that our relationship with landscape is mediated through the moving image with a selection of works from a range of artists.

Elwes takes a journey through the twin histories of landscape art and experimental moving image and discovers how they coalesce in the work of artists from the 1970s to the present day. Drawing on a wide geographical sampling, Elwes considers issues that have preoccupied film and video artists over the years, ranging from ecology, gender, race, performativity, conflict, colonialism and our relationship to the nonhuman creatures with whom we share our world. The book is informed by the belief that artists can provide an embodied, emotional response to landscape, which is an essential driver in the urgent task of combating the environmental crisis we now face.

The online exhibition is a microsite. Follow this link to access the project: landscapeandmovingimage.site