Both Angles of Incidence and Rajamailla (Borderlands) will be shown at Rovaniemi Art Museum, Rovaniemi, Finland, from 23.1 – 9.3.2008. A selection of individual (solo) works will also be exhibited. Mark Roberts is showing two new video video works Foreign Apples and Terra Incognita from the series “Scenographs”. Each work in the series attempts to condense a theme or issue [...]
Archive for January, 2008
Rovaniemi Art Museum
Posted in Exhibitions on January 5, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Scenograph #2: Foreign Apples (2008)
Posted in Artworks, Mark Roberts, Solo Works on January 1, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Foreign Apples is the second work in the Scenograph series, and examines the way that nationalism secretes itself into the everyday. Beside the video, the latest edition of Kotiruoka – a Finnish home-cookery book – is open to a recipe for apple pie, the first line of which instructs the cook to “Wash the apples and peel [...]
Scenograph #1: Terra Incognita (2008)
Posted in Artworks, Mark Roberts, Solo Works on January 1, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Terra Incognita is the first in a series of single-screen video works grouped under the title of Scenographs. The aim of the each work is to explore one issue in a single scene. As the title suggests, the intention is to combine the static elements of the photograph with the temporality of video and the idea [...]
