VCA ART 2020

Rebecca Najdowski

PhD

The Anthropocene casts a long shadow over this project. Inverted Landscapes addresses how photomedia has traditionally shaped nature to humanity's desire—reducing the animate world to a representation, a distanced landscape to be considered. I made artworks as a response to the need, brought on by the climate crisis, to conceptualise nature differently. The project includes works made by directly exposing photo-materials to natural phenomena, like geothermal activity and high-salinity environments, photographs created through haptic manipulations of conventional landscape imagery, and digital 3D scans of flora. Through undermining the material semblance and representational structures of photomedia depictions of nature, Inverted Landscapes draws attention to how humans, non-human nature, and imaging technologies are entangled.

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Rebecca Najdowski, *Inverted Landscapes*, PhD examination exhibition, 2020. Documentation by Mark Ashkanasy.
Rebecca Najdowski, Inverted Landscapes, PhD examination exhibition, 2020. Documentation by Mark Ashkanasy.
Rebecca Najdowski, *Surfacing (gelatin silver)*, gelatin silver solar prints, 2017
Rebecca Najdowski, Surfacing (gelatin silver), gelatin silver solar prints, 2017
Rebecca Najdowski, *Surfacing in Inverted Landscapes*, gelatin silver solar prints and chromogenic prints, 2017-18. Documentation by Mark Ashkanasy.
Rebecca Najdowski, Surfacing in Inverted Landscapes, gelatin silver solar prints and chromogenic prints, 2017-18. Documentation by Mark Ashkanasy.
Rebecca Najdowski, *Surfacing (chromogenic) 3.2 L*, chromogenic print, 2018
Rebecca Najdowski, Surfacing (chromogenic) 3.2 L, chromogenic print, 2018
Rebecca Najdowski, *Ambient Pressure in Inverted Landscapes*, pigment prints, chromogenic prints, digital video, coloured gels, 2017-20. Documentation by Mark Ashkanasy.
Rebecca Najdowski, Ambient Pressure in Inverted Landscapes, pigment prints, chromogenic prints, digital video, coloured gels, 2017-20. Documentation by Mark Ashkanasy.
Rebecca Najdowski, *Ambient Pressure in Inverted Landscapes*, pigment prints, chromogenic prints, digital video, coloured gels, 2017-20
Rebecca Najdowski, Ambient Pressure in Inverted Landscapes, pigment prints, chromogenic prints, digital video, coloured gels, 2017-20
Rebecca Najdowski, *Ambient Pressure 33*, pigment print, 2020
Rebecca Najdowski, Ambient Pressure 33, pigment print, 2020
Rebecca Najdowski, *Echo and Surfacing in Inverted Landscapes*, digital 3D models from photogrammetry scans on touchscreen tablets, video, gelatin silver solar prints, chromogenic prints, 2017-20. Documentation by Mark Ashkanasy.
Rebecca Najdowski, Echo and Surfacing in Inverted Landscapes, digital 3D models from photogrammetry scans on touchscreen tablets, video, gelatin silver solar prints, chromogenic prints, 2017-20. Documentation by Mark Ashkanasy.
Rebecca Najdowski, *Echo* (detail), digital 3D models from photogrammetry scans on touchscreen tablets, 2020. Documentation by Mark Ashkanasy.
Rebecca Najdowski, Echo (detail), digital 3D models from photogrammetry scans on touchscreen tablets, 2020. Documentation by Mark Ashkanasy.
Rebecca Najdowski, *Echo 1*, digital 3D models from photogrammetry scan, 2020
Rebecca Najdowski, Echo 1, digital 3D models from photogrammetry scan, 2020

PhD

L Hermosilla
Rowan McNaught
Rebecca Najdowski

We acknowledge and pay respect to the Traditional Owners of the lands upon which our campus is situated, the people of the Boon Wurrung and Woi Wurrung, who have created art, made music and told their stories here for thousands of generations. We also acknowledge and extend our respect to the Traditional Owners of all lands on which our work is viewed, shared and enjoyed, and to all Elders, past, present and emerging.

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