LB°13 — Artists
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Steffi Klenz (b. 1979, Germany), is an artist based in Great Britain.
The terms “city” and “landscape” are often presented as dichotomies to distinguish between cultured space and wilderness. With my work I question the perceived opposition between these two terms, and set out on a quest for a new space in-between. Doing so I deliberately transform the city into a strange space of indeterminate expanse and texture. With a focus on the peripheral spaces of London, my images do not define this borderland as a “green belt” but rather as “displaced areas”, non-places presented in a state of ambiguity. The viewer perceives mountain or desert-like landscapes, but these places are man-made, abandoned and left to their own devices. The uncertainty of scale and location offers strong allusions to the tradition of Romantic landscape painting.
Steffi Klenz is a German artist based in London best known for her large-scale photographic work of unusual urban spaces. In her work she examines the peripheral spaces of modern culture as a location for transition and transformation, both geographically and metaphorically.
Pudding Mill Lane, Steffi Klenz. Luleåbiennalen 2013.
Work
A Scape, photographic series in six pieces
Location
Luleå
