Horizons (Buckingham Palace, Lillywhites, Liberty)
Black and white photographs, each 20x50cm, 1998

Linked artist Collaboration

Camilla Berner reforms the cityscape in the image of the sea. She translates fables, underwater, in many languages. Her work speaks of the flux of time, of permanence and impermanence, of relative values of objects and ideas.
In Horizons, Berner makes reference to the familiar contours of the London cityscape represented in tourist postcards. In place of the buildings is the sea. These images evoke the universal experience of the sea whilst inviting us to rebuild the city from fragments of memory. Berner’s native country is Denmark, a place where the sea is constantly present. This piece was created when she was living and working in London and refers to a sense of longing; longing for the sea and longing to be elsewhere.
This series of panoramic images form an installation where the viewer is completely encircled by the horizon(s).
In a photograph time is captured and sealed. As the photograph arrests time, its image is simultaneously displaced from time. For Berner, thinking about time is not so much about a final definition of what time is, but more an attempt to try to reveal an awareness and understanding of how we perceive and relate to our surroundings.

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