Magdalena Jetelová
Iceland Project, 1992
Archival pigment print on acrylic, black aluminium frame (Silber-Baryt-Papier kaschiert auf Aluminium)
150 x 200 x 4.5 cm
59 1/16 x 78 11/16 x 1 12/16 ins
1/2 Edition
Staged photography as a hanging light box. Recording of light performance. The line of light crossing the surface of the bleak countryside of Iceland visualizes something hidden in the depth...
Staged photography as a hanging light box. Recording of light performance.
The line of light crossing the surface of the bleak countryside of Iceland visualizes something hidden in the depth of the ocean. The Central Atlantic mountain range stretching for some 15 000 kilometers on the sea floor is the geological boundary between America and Europe. On the border of the plates in the ocean crust lined with faults and plateaus unceasing changes take place, through which the present location of continents originated. The long seam may be seen with naked eye in Iceland only. The extreme case of its emergence to the surface of the Earth is made visible by a laser beam, which thus proves the unsurmountable and always free form of the borders of our world.
The line of light crossing the surface of the bleak countryside of Iceland visualizes something hidden in the depth of the ocean. The Central Atlantic mountain range stretching for some 15 000 kilometers on the sea floor is the geological boundary between America and Europe. On the border of the plates in the ocean crust lined with faults and plateaus unceasing changes take place, through which the present location of continents originated. The long seam may be seen with naked eye in Iceland only. The extreme case of its emergence to the surface of the Earth is made visible by a laser beam, which thus proves the unsurmountable and always free form of the borders of our world.