Mark Dorf
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Transposition
2016 - 2017
Transposition explores the false clarity of categorical thinking within Western culture—a tendency to divide the world into binaries: Nature and Culture, digital and physical, chaos and harmony. These distinctions, long treated as a given, are in fact produced, maintained, and blurred by the very systems—technological, visual, political—that claim to make them legible.
In an time shaped by media saturation and communication technologies, the perceived boundaries between urbanity and environment, screen and terrain, become increasingly porous. Transposition meditates on this entanglement: the ways in which categories like “Nature” and “City” are not opposites but co-produced, continuously redefined through their mutual influence.
The works in Transposition build a hybrid visual language from the raw materials of these perceived categories. They reassemble fragments of architecture, terrain, interface, and image into compositions that bear the name “landscape”—while simultaneously questioning the authority of that name. By appropriating and reconfiguring the genre’s formal tropes, Transposition turns the power of naming back onto itself, exposing how the visual vocabulary of “landscape” disciplines what we expect from “Nature”. In doing so, the work resists the fixity of inherited frameworks, revealing a space where nature, urbanity, and technology operate not as discrete domains, but as mutually embedded forces: in tension, in collaboration, and in flux.
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
Transposition
2016 - 2017
Transposition explores the false clarity of categorical thinking within Western culture—a tendency to divide the world into binaries: Nature and Culture, digital and physical, chaos and harmony. These distinctions, long treated as a given, are in fact produced, maintained, and blurred by the very systems—technological, visual, political—that claim to make them legible.
In an time shaped by media saturation and communication technologies, the perceived boundaries between urbanity and environment, screen and terrain, become increasingly porous. Transposition meditates on this entanglement: the ways in which categories like “Nature” and “City” are not opposites but co-produced, continuously redefined through their mutual influence.
The works in Transposition build a hybrid visual language from the raw materials of these perceived categories. They reassemble fragments of architecture, terrain, interface, and image into compositions that bear the name “landscape”—while simultaneously questioning the authority of that name. By appropriating and reconfiguring the genre’s formal tropes, Transposition turns the power of naming back onto itself, exposing how the visual vocabulary of “landscape” disciplines what we expect from “Nature”. In doing so, the work resists the fixity of inherited frameworks, revealing a space where nature, urbanity, and technology operate not as discrete domains, but as mutually embedded forces: in tension, in collaboration, and in flux.
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