Artwork
Amazonia - Window on the World
Lucy + Jorge Orta, 2010
- Ref: 5501
- Materials: Wooden window frame with shutters, Lambda photographs laminated Dibond, 20 plasma bottles
- Dimensions: 90 x 100 x 25cm
- Catalogued: Unfold, Springer Wien New York, 2010, p. 80
- Exhibition history: 2009 Palazzo Strozzi, Italy
- Courtesy: Courtesy of the Artists and Galleria Continua San Gimignano / Beijing / Le Moulin
- Concept: In the work of Lucy + Jorge Orta, windows are focal points drawing our attention to a specific subject or issue. They usually find a photographic reference and a series of metaphorical objects inside or suspended from the structures. In this work the artists' photographs from their expedition to the Peruvian Amazon are enlarged and fragmented. The spanish window frame, whose doors and shutters open in an 'Alice in Wonderland' voyage, reveal the different Amazon landscapes.
