The Ultimate Land

The photo series “The Ultimate Land” features Taiwanese visual artist Chun Yao. Using Google Maps, he travels through Europe in search of temporary space; encompassing his body as an aesthetic coordination.

Our knowledge of the landscape is developed from the moment we open our eyes and learners stand, then by conquering the landscape. We define the environment through aesthetic and normative experiences, and we lose the ability to explain landscape.

Chun Yao’s work was developed by the 1954 book “The Making of the English Landscape,” in which Hoskins argued that a landscape historian uses botany, physical geography, and natural history as well as historical knowledge to fully understand a particular scene. skilled . The series “The Ultimate Land” offers a form of resistance to conventionality, to free the viewer from his existing impression of the landscape.

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