ROB MINERVINI: CRYSTAL PALACE
Crystal Palace is an investigation into our relationship to objects, landscape, and the act of looking. The viewer is presented with window-like displays of silhouetted still-life objects camouflaged into an idyllic landscape. The relationship between foreground and background is obscured in the imagery: flatness and illusionistic space slip in and out of focus as one grapples with the distinction between inside and outside, and as distance and proximity vie for position and prominence.
Rob Minervini’s work examines spatial environments and notions of utopia in large-scale cityscapes, landscapes, and still-life arrangements. In this body of work, Minervini conjurs themes of displacement and reflection on nature while simultaneously exploring the tension between digital and analogue.