Artworks

Rob Carter, The Visitors, 2017

In conjunction with Sandow Birk’s Imaginary Monuments II (2019) the Media Room debuted The Visitors, a collaged animation by English-born artist Rob Carter. Compiled from postcards, photographs and video depicting the Mediterranean island of Mallorca, The Visitors employs historical and contemporary imagery as part of a continued investigation of how environments are altered through tourism and globalization. In Carter’s animation, the uneasy shifting between photographs in motion and stillness suggest a landscape that is in contact flux, and his use of historic and imagined materials chronicle a changing historical landscape, while also rendering possible future in which the land itself is forever changed by human impact.