Valle Mortis: Brooke Holm Presents an Audio-visual Exhibition that Looks to Mars.

New York-based artist Brooke Holm has unveiled her latest body of work, Valle Mortis, an audio-visual exploration into the temporal crisis that is the past, present and future as humanity looks to Mars as a speculative counterpart to life on Earth.

Valle Mortis is a sensory depiction of the topographical similarities between Death Valley and Martian terrain predominantly through lenticular prints of the artist’s aerial photographs of Death Valley, paralleled with Mars imagery from the HiRise (High-Resolution Imaging Science Experiment) by NASA/JPL/University of Arizona.

Holm’s techniques allow the viewer to witness the Earth transition to its likeness on Mars, while her video and audio compositions provide an immersive dimension, speaking to the cyclical nature of humankind’s obsession with a future that is ever bound to the past. The result is a celestial body of work suspended in time, neither quite here nor there, at once familiar and unknowable.

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“The concept for this project has been formulated over three years and is inspired by my interests in satellite imagery, temporal mythologies, geological forces that shape landforms and specifically, the visual similarities found amongst terrestrial celestial bodies,” says Brooke. “I have followed the work of the HiRise since its inception, often astounded by the resemblance found within my own work. Thanks to the technology created by NASA, JPL and the University of Arizona, we can see the surface of a planet that is 95 million miles away in shocking detail. Valle Mortis brings this home, showing us the direct correlation and connection between worlds.”

Brooke Holm is an Australian-American artist working with photography, sound and motion. Based in New York, her work traverses dramatic landscapes while exploring new ways of visioning ecological realities and futures. Valle Mortis opens this April at Sage Culture Gallery in Los Angeles. For more information head to sageculture.com

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