MARK
DORF

Transposition2016 - 2017

Western culture is drawn to categorize in binaries: There is the landscape, and there is the city; there is the digital, and there is the physical; there is chaos, and there is harmony. In the increasingly technological world fueled and influenced by digital media and communication technologies, the contrast between urban centers and the surrounding landscape continues to increase while the meeting point of virtual environments with the physical becomes blurrier.

Transposition meditates on the entanglement of these perceived categories, how they influence one another, how they are co-dependent, and how they are co-produced. It is impossible for an image of a landscape not to influence one's expectation of how "Nature" should perform for the individual.

Through exploring these perceived categories as not distinctly separate, but rather as a dynamic spectrum, Transposition reveals a language—comprehensively new, yet uncannily familiar—produced from the intra-action of “Nature”, urbanity, and technology.

Additional works available upon request.

Selected Exhibitions
2023 NonostanteMarras, Milan, Italy
2020 Le Lieu Unique, Nantes, France
2020 Foam Photography Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands
2020 Metronom Gallery, Modena, Italy
2019 Les Rencontres d’Arles, Arles, France
2018 Frankfurtur Kunstverein, Frankfurt, Germany
2018 Beaconsfield Gallery Vauxhall, London, UK
2017 Postmasters Gallery, New York, NY
2016 Prague Botanical Garden, Prague, Czech Republic
2016 School of Visual Arts, New York, NY

Selected Publications
2022 IMA Magazine - Vol. 37
2019 Arch+ - Issue No. 228
2017 Foam Magazine - Issue No. 48

Landscape 14, UV Print on Dibond, Birch Plywood, Tempered Glass, Faux Rock, Fluorescent Light, Faux Grass, House Plant, Resin, Bark, Bottled Water, 58″ x 45″ x 15″, 2017

Landscape 06, UV Print on Dibond mounted on Birch Plywood, 43″ x 40″, 2017

Landscape 15, UV Print on Dibond, Birch plywood, tempered glass, fake grass, fluorescent light, 72″ x 41″ x 8″, 2017

Landscape 13, UV Print on Dibond mounted on Birch Plywood, 20″ x 28″, 2017

Landscape 07, UV Print on Dibond, Birch plywood, tempered glass, house plant, silk plant, fake grass, bark, resin, fluorescent light, 72″ x 43″ 8″, 2017

Landscape 09, UV Print on Dibond mounted on Birch Plywood, 24″ x 30″, 2017

Landscape 12, UV Print on Dibond, Birch plywood, tempered glass, house plant, faux grass, bark, resin, fluorescent light bottled water, 30″ x 60″ x 9″, 2017

Landscape 16, UV Print on Dibond mounted on Birch Plywood, 32″ x 40″, 2017

Landscape 18, OSB (Oriented Strand Board), plexi-glass, UV Print on Dibond, fake grass, bottled water, faux rock, 38″ x 24″ x 24″, 2017

Landscape 08, UV Print on Dibond mounted on Birch Plywood, 11″ x 14″, 2017

Landscape 10, UV Print on Dibond mounted on Birch Plywood, 11″ x 14″, 2017

Installation view, Postmasters Gallery, NYC, 2017

Installation view at Postmasters Gallery, 2017

Landscape 03 installed at the Albertov Botanical Gardens in Prague, CZ commissioned by the Fotograf Festival in 2016. Birch plywood, pine stock, UV Print, Tempered Glass, Astroturf, plexi-glass, fluorescent light, concrete, wood chip, resin.

Landscape 03 (Detail)

Landscape 05 as installed at the Albertov Botanical Gardens in Prague, CZ commissioned by the Fotograf Festival in 2016. Birch plywood, pine stock, UV Print, Tempered Glass, Astroturf, plexi-glass, fluorescent light, concrete, gravel, resin

MARK DORF

MARK
DORF