8/30/2023 0 Comments Rbg photos![]() ![]() He creates multi-screen film installations and photographs that incorporate different artistic disciplines to create a unique, poetic visual language. Isaac Julien is a Turner prize-nominated artist and filmmaker recipient of the Royal Academy of Arts Charles Wollaston Award appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in 2017. In doing so, ecosystems’ characteristics are questioned: in their relative temperature – the cold and the warm digitally meeting – but also with regards to notions of natural and cultural, cultivated and wild. Continuing the parallels, Julien integrates Bo Bardi’s trademark glass and concrete easels into his film.Īugmenting a five-screen version of Stones Against Diamonds (Ice Cave) into the different botanical gardens lends it additional layers by juxtaposing distant and near. ![]() ![]() Signature elements of Bo Bardi’s work have been incorporated into Stones Against Diamonds (Ice Cave), including a staircase built by hand into the ice cave during the production of the film. ![]() Julien portrays some of the most beautiful objects as the least precious in a conventional sense. Thus, the artwork explores themes inspired by Bo Bardi’s letter, where she praises the beauty of semi-precious gems over preferred precious stones such as diamonds. Over five days, the crew endured sub-zero temperatures in the heart of spectacular, glistening glacial caves formed in ice over thousands of years and only accessible a few days a year due to the harsh climate. Isaac Julien’s Stones Against Diamonds (Ice Cave) draws inspiration from a letter written by Brazilian architect Lina Bo Bardi and was shot in Iceland’s remote ice caves in the Vatnajökull region. ![]()
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