Not Even Background Noises, 1996
Four digital prints, 100x120 cm



In a post-apocalyptic vein, I also created desert landscapes in which artificial and natural elements coexist in a single aesthetic dimension. These art works were influenced by J.G. Ballard novel The Atrocity Exhibition (1970), in which enormous shopping malls, vast parking lots and endless highways are described as protagonists of a new, postmodern landscape: a blend of natural and artificial, of metal and flesh, of spontaneous outgrowth and human calculation. The title refers to a reality where all white and black noise is filtered out from perception—a kind of extra-terrestrial gaze.