ART Habens
Monica Supé
nition. And everything I read influences me. In my work – and while working I think of it as an experimental process – I wish to express everything in the right way for just this subject. And this is what I am looking for every time.
I was invited to create an installation for a Franco-German exhibition named „ Landschaft – Campagne“( Landscape). I had plenty of space there so I could plan a tall one. After thinking about the topic I was sure that I wanted to create something which references the synthetic in landscape, because landscape doesn’ t mean nature. In German the word“ Landschaft” indicates this because the suffix“-schaft” means“ created”. Landscape is man-made and it seems that the position of real nature like primeval forests has even kept secrets from us. I named it“ Kulturlandschaft” because the concept of“ Kultur” is derived from Latin“ colere” which means“ to cultivate”. Cultivating landscape is a cultural achievement and I wondered if we attest real culture in our dealing with it, when we subordinate nature and landscape to our dictates of using.