Landscape has taken on many forms and degrees of change over time and our notion of a natural landscape is now one that has transformed significantly. The alterations that our needs have imposed on the instinctive forms of a landscape are shocking and unrecognizable. Sculpture Center’s group exhibition, Degrees of Remove: Landscape and Affect, curated by Sarina Basta with Fionn Meade addresses exactly this; how perceptions of landscape take on new meaning and identity to those who had never before known what these places looked like in their natural state. Technology has enabled us to view and engage in the landscape in an entirely different way. The piece poses the question of whether we truly do engage in landscapes at all, which to me is such a strong commentary on what landscapes will mean to us in the future.
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