Residency Unlimited invites you to the group exhibition “Landscapes That Influence,” curated by Data Chigholashvili and featuring works by RU artists Oskar Helcel, Thomas Moore, Igor Schiller, Rory Torstensson, and Oksana Zmiyevska.
An inherent relationship develops with the landscapes that we inhabit. As we transform our environments, they also merge with mindscapes, establishing an interconnected influence that continues in new contexts that one lives in or passes through. Artworks in this exhibition oscillate between personal and collective landscapes. Visitors encounter topics such as memories, areas, and terrains that affect the artists’ gaze, even if those from the distant past sometimes require reconciliation. Themes such as liminality, navigating urban settings, natural and mental scenes, spaces of industrial solitude, and future imaginaries also emerge in the selection of works presented in this former residential house, situated on Governors Island in New York Harbor. The exhibition explores the above through the interpretations of physical and emotional landscapes, those that stay with us, and those in the memories of which we reside.
