Julia Schäfer | A New Landscape

A New Landscape

JULIA SCHÄFER: Untitled (Patina)

„Look at the landscape around you, and carve it onto your memory. You must change it, so that it does not resemble what was here before you. The mountain, the hills, the forest and the meadows – they must all bare your name and reflect the light of your face … Tell everyone you were here first, they will believe you.”

Amos Kenan, „The First“

JULIA SCHÄFER: Alles hat ein Ende [Everything has an end]

„Look at the landscape around you, and carve it onto your memory. You must change it, so that it does not resemble what was here before you. The mountain, the hills, the forest and the meadows – they must all bare your name and reflect the light of your face … Tell everyone you were here first, they will believe you.”

Amos Kenan, „The First“

JULIA SCHÄFER: Only those who know the Longing (Publication)

„Look at the landscape around you, and carve it onto your memory. You must change it, so that it does not resemble what was here before you. The mountain, the hills, the forest and the meadows – they must all bare your name and reflect the light of your face … Tell everyone you were here first, they will believe you.”

Amos Kenan, „The First“

JULIA SCHÄFER: Cling Film

„Look at the landscape around you, and carve it onto your memory. You must change it, so that it does not resemble what was here before you. The mountain, the hills, the forest and the meadows – they must all bare your name and reflect the light of your face … Tell everyone you were here first, they will believe you.”

Amos Kenan, „The First“

JULIA SCHÄFER: Surface Treatments – 150 Jahre Zeit

„Look at the landscape around you, and carve it onto your memory. You must change it, so that it does not resemble what was here before you. The mountain, the hills, the forest and the meadows – they must all bare your name and reflect the light of your face … Tell everyone you were here first, they will believe you.”

Amos Kenan, „The First“

JULIA SCHÄFER: This is how he wants to soften stone …

„Look at the landscape around you, and carve it onto your memory. You must change it, so that it does not resemble what was here before you. The mountain, the hills, the forest and the meadows – they must all bare your name and reflect the light of your face … Tell everyone you were here first, they will believe you.”

Amos Kenan, „The First“

JULIA SCHÄFER: moneyshot

„Look at the landscape around you, and carve it onto your memory. You must change it, so that it does not resemble what was here before you. The mountain, the hills, the forest and the meadows – they must all bare your name and reflect the light of your face … Tell everyone you were here first, they will believe you.”

Amos Kenan, „The First“

JULIA SCHÄFER: brāhha

„Look at the landscape around you, and carve it onto your memory. You must change it, so that it does not resemble what was here before you. The mountain, the hills, the forest and the meadows – they must all bare your name and reflect the light of your face … Tell everyone you were here first, they will believe you.”

Amos Kenan, „The First“

JULIA SCHÄFER: Women Crying

„Look at the landscape around you, and carve it onto your memory. You must change it, so that it does not resemble what was here before you. The mountain, the hills, the forest and the meadows – they must all bare your name and reflect the light of your face … Tell everyone you were here first, they will believe you.”

Amos Kenan, „The First“

JULIA SCHÄFER: What shall we eat this time? (edition)

„Look at the landscape around you, and carve it onto your memory. You must change it, so that it does not resemble what was here before you. The mountain, the hills, the forest and the meadows – they must all bare your name and reflect the light of your face … Tell everyone you were here first, they will believe you.”

Amos Kenan, „The First“

JULIA SCHÄFER: PINK, ALMOST ORANGE

„Look at the landscape around you, and carve it onto your memory. You must change it, so that it does not resemble what was here before you. The mountain, the hills, the forest and the meadows – they must all bare your name and reflect the light of your face … Tell everyone you were here first, they will believe you.”

Amos Kenan, „The First“

JULIA SCHÄFER: Tränen lügen nicht

„Look at the landscape around you, and carve it onto your memory. You must change it, so that it does not resemble what was here before you. The mountain, the hills, the forest and the meadows – they must all bare your name and reflect the light of your face … Tell everyone you were here first, they will believe you.”

Amos Kenan, „The First“

JULIA SCHÄFER: A New Landscape Details

„Look at the landscape around you, and carve it onto your memory. You must change it, so that it does not resemble what was here before you. The mountain, the hills, the forest and the meadows – they must all bare your name and reflect the light of your face … Tell everyone you were here first, they will believe you.”

Amos Kenan, „The First“

2019, Inkjet Print (variable dimensions), slide projectors, Galerie Kernweine Stuttgart ---

A New Landscape examines our view onto landscape and the innocent naturalness that we often want to see in it. The large-scale collages consist of two elements: pale aged stones and digitally imitated leaves. Both are photographic observations made in Israel, representing two types of landscape: the “old” and the “new” one.

The ruins are remains of destroyed Palestinian villages that have been covered with 240 million trees – often European species – by the Israeli government to hide a part of history. This “new landscape” is promoted by posters depicting the ideal tree as a computer-generated structure.