‘postcards from google earth’ by clement valla, 2011-2013
image © clement valla
brooklyn-based artist clement valla, scours the algorithmic confines of google earth in search ruptures of the archive’s ‘universal texture’, the mapping method by which google generates models of the planet’s surfaces. the three dimensional model, however, is characterized by a fluidity generated by two dimensional parameters. when texture coincides with picture plane and is subsequently stretched across 3d space, there are often seams at which the hyper-real representation betrays the dynamic data points that make up the map. valla collects these incongruous seams and exposes the points where perception confronts reality.
more ‘postcards’ can be found here.
millau, france
image © clement valla
los angeles, california
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rome, italy
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deception pass, washington, usa
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powell, montana
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valley pass
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switzerland
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los angeles, california
image © clement valla
catskills,new york, usa
image © clement valla
