Intact, 2009
Yamini Nayar’s constructed photographs of imagined spaces are made from table-top installations built in her studio for the lens and documented with a large-format camera. She builds from found and discarded materials and draws from a range of sources, including architectonics – from religious to the mundane-, historical archives and industrial ruins to create spatial constructions that aim to challenge scale and materials through the photographic space. – Yamini Nayar
In the Lausitz region of eastern Germany machines are digging their way through the landscape in search of lignite, the dirtiest combustible on the planet in terms of emissions of the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide. These immense open cast mines are rapidly expanding and forcing villagers to leave their homes. But the destruction of landscape and extrusion of villagers has a long history. Thousands of Brandenburg residents have lost their homes since mining began in 1924. A total of 136 villages have been destroyed to make way for the mines, displacing at least 30,000 people. – Johan Bergström
Evidence No. 1, 2008
Evidence, currently on display at Marvelli Gallery through December 31, 2009.
