The work of the North American artist Mark Dorf questions the relationship of human beings with nature and the position we occupy within it. He fixes on the words and images that describe it, exercising a hierarchical relationship between people and their natural environment.
What kind of language can be used to rethink the destructive anthropocentric relationship with the environment? Is it possible to think about nature from a non-human perspective? Dorf’s work incorporates the contradictions that occur when trying to change a point of view and moves away from traditional representations that place human beings at its centre. To do this, he fuses the visual references of a romantic vision of nature with others derived from digital media and the Internet. The disturbing strangeness of his images gives us a different, abnormal perspective. This is a vision in which technology is not an alien, external element to the human being, but a tool in its own right which can develop and be steered in new directions.
Projection and Lenny are two of the images that are part of the Contours project together with an audiovisual piece, and Dorf has expanded them in the form of a triptych and a diptych respectively to be displayed at the Getxo petrol station.