The Iceland Project - Kayo Shido

Contemporary artist Kayo Shido creates a photographic project capturing sublime scenes of other-worldly natural landscapes during her travels to Iceland. Shido’s scenes of minimal landscapes and textures is akin to images that capture the changing environment which may cease to exist. Not traditionally known for photographic practice, Shido’s wide-angle format and near architectural pristine landscapes inspires an exploration of relationships of humanity and the land.

Her photographic images stimulate overlapping tangents of sculpture, dramatic visual evidence, the passage of time, site and location. The project deals less with ‘the conceptual’ and dives more into the layering of complexities in practice, observation and form. The works are authentic and genuine - reaching a certain state of pre-conceptual gaze where landscape and subjective observance seamlessly converge into a singular medium. 

The Iceland Project are editions of studies that capture the idea of how we inhabit our landscapes and how those landscapes inform and develop the iconic nature of psychology, society, position, sense of place, time and intervention. There is a certain quality of timelessness that the series articulates as time is marked by nature and the dis-orientation of scale and grandeur. 

The forms capture the subtle oscillation from large-format horizons to rock formations in nature that tend to appear large and small. The ecology presented in this project of Icelandic landscapes explore a range of palettes and textures of materiality. It captures the curvature of nature and peculiar conditions of sense of environment, surrounding and the observable, where human intervention takes a back-seat and is perhaps rendered marginal. 

Contemporary artist Kayo Shido creates a photographic project capturing sublime scenes of other-worldly natural phenomena during her travels to Iceland. Shido’s scenes of minimal landscapes and textures is akin to images that capture the changing environment which may cease to exist.

In the form of drawing on photograph, the project deals less with ‘the conceptual’ and dives more into the layering of complexities in practice, observation and form.

The artist explores the ideas of dividing space, create another space that can be unreal but can only exist and make sense in the imaginary scenery. 

The contemplation also includes natural phenomena – how water flowed and wind eroded earth. Or the question of what has it been here? So the lines would suggest that it used to be taller mountains, or different angles of cliff walls.

Since the landscape of Iceland is devastatingly complex and chaotic already, minimum lines and geometric shapes challenge as human intervention. The preciseness or coldness of geometry complements or emphasizes the desolate, otherworldliness of the Icelandic landscape.

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Contemporary artist Kayo Shido creates a photographic project capturing sublime scenes of other-worldly natural landscapes during her travels to Iceland. 

She incorporates photographs with drawing and collage to create imaginary spaces, her own interpretation of landscapes which lays between the boundaries of natural forms and minimal geometry.