Lugares que habito: apropriações e performances da paisagem na fotografia de Mishka Henner

Abstract

The Belgian photographer, Mishka Henner, moves to the field of art the photographic images that are used in Google's digital maps. The artist appropriates these photographs in order to play with the photographic/cartographic ordering of the geotags, and with the verisimilar correspondence of the landscape in the interactive and immersive interfaces of computer programs such as Google Earth and Google Street View. From there, it is the task of this research to face the landscape as an experience that regulates our relations with space, taking into account certain artistic practices that value the reuse of the photos indexed to the current systems of geographical location. The hypothesis is that Mishka Henner's visual games are intended to vary our perception of the world and question us about the uses and functions of the photographic image in the context of contemporary digital geolocation technologies. The cutouts, repetitions, scales, the appropriation gesturghghhges of the images and their modes of presence in the exhibition environment (whether in photo books or in the volumetric spaces of museums and galleries) would be able to produce other forms of image apprehension, raising, for example, the very question of the landscape as an analytical tool that helps us to think ways of ordering the perception and the experience of the spaces in the present time