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ebenda – adaption of a mountain landscape, 2013, topographical map, detail, IKOB Museum of Contemporary Art, Belgium 2015

I translated the carpet landscape depicted in the painting “The Geographer” by Jan Vermeer into a three-dimensional model and defined it as a carpet landscape. In collaboration with the office of cartography of Berlin’s Technical University I then developed a topographical map of the carpet landscape using some 5 million measurement points.

The resulting map refers to a place that has not yet been discovered, a place where no one has yet set foot.

Ebenda_2015_Nora_Mertes

ebenda – adaption of a mountain landscape, 2013, installation view, IKOB Museum of Contemporary Art, Belgium 2015

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ebenda – adaption of a mountain landscape, 2013, inkjet print, 3 x à 83 x 112 cm, detail, detail, IKOB Museum of Contemporary Art, Belgium 2015