Exhibition Visit. Mariele Neudecker, Faintly Falling on all the Living and the Dead.

I managed to see this exhibition at the same time as EPOTY as it was also at the Grizedale Visitor Centre in Cumbria.  The work of artist Marielle Neudecker is an ongoing exploration of the landscape tradition in art, and the changing representation and reception of nature and landscape.  She works in sculpture, installation, film and photography.In this show three life size trees are transported into the gallery space.  The allude to the stillness of a forest clearing withought the sound of wind or creaking boughs of the trees.  The closeness of the living forest serves to enhance the sense of the uncanny in these faithful reproductions, which have been cast from living trees.  In this exhibition Neudecker says that she wishes to explore our own perception of the world.  As can be seen from the photographs below, these sculptures are uncannily real.  It is only when they are touched that one realises that they are casts.  Looking out of the high windows the adjacent trees could be seen enhancing the feel of being in a living forest.