Kansas Atlas (2019)

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• 2019

"A four-channel vidéo installation featuring original métrage shot primarily from a bird's eye view of the Kansas town known as the geographical center of the US as a way to reflect upon what the artist considers “a metonymy for the country as a whole”. Double projection imagery of the aerial shots of this landscape at times forming abstract and stereoscope-like compositions — become close-ups on grotesque monuments and sculptures as the camera descend to ground level. Additionally, two ipad both contained within glass dômes each play a video of one of two houses that sit directly opposite each other in a residential Topeka neighborhood. One is the headquarters of the infamous Westboro Baptist Church with its anti-LGBTQ signs and other hate-filled rhetoric; the second is the Equality House”, which was formed later as a direct response, with its rainbow colors and messages of peace and acceptance.