MIXED MEDSA DALZIEL + SCULLION Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh, until Sat 12 Jan .00.
The lunar landscape of Voyager by Dalziel + Scullion
Dirt crunching under foot and aluminium cast tents gleaming in the dark mark the beginning to Dalziel + Scullion’s Home exhibition. It’s a great contradiction to the usual pristine order of art galleries and a novel introduction to Dalziel + Scullion’s ponderings on the universe. Taking their inspiration from the landscapes of Aberdeenshire and Norway, they have built an exhibition that creates new habitats for the viewer to walk through or sit and experience. Life is about adapting to the changes that nature forces upon us and in some cases it works and in others it doesn‘t.
One small step over the threshold of this exhibition and a giant leap of the imagination turns a dirt-filled room into a lunar landscape or an abandoned scientific expedition. You are forced to explore and adapt to these sterile surroundings perhaps to build empathy for the penguins in the Habitat video who are trapped in their shit-covered concrete pen. Sitting watching these birds, mirroring their inactivity, you realise how bored they are: if only their vestigial wings could carry them to an icy heaven.
In contrast to the plight of the penguins the video Water Falls Down shows a group from a fishing community getting baptised in the sea, which they embrace as part of their natural habitat.
Dominating the exhibition are large blocks of photographs of the Norwegian woods and glaciers creating an almost virtual landscape to walk through and appreciate what Dalziel + Scullion want you to — the power and beauty of nature. (Isabella Weir)
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