Impossible Gaze #17
Origin: Room 27 – Sala di Apollo [Apollo Room]
Galleria Palatina
Palazzo Pitti
Significantly, Calle, Knorr, Höfer, and Struth share a post-war European background and are producing work from inside a landscape of European education and cultural establishments. This, I would suggest, reflects a particular sensibility in their art, one that expresses an intimate familiarity with the museums and history of Europe . However, my visuality and perception as a post-colonial artist geographically removed from the cultural centers of Europe , where the very idea of the museum is constantly undergoing scrutiny and restructure, places my work apart. Working outside a European tradition grants me an opportunity to re-interpret historic European culture and portray it with a pervading sense of wonder and curiosity. My images filled with veneration—their photographic framing and angle of view—brand me as an outsider; they are a sign of my own identity, representing my vision as different from those who have been exposed to this architecture for a lifetime.
