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The image should produce a feeling of vertigo at the edge of knowing — the viewer senses a vast, living landscape just beneath a surface of imposed blankness, like pressing your face to frosted glass and feeling warmth on the other side. It should evoke the specific dread of institutional unseeing, where the act of not-looking is itself a form of violence. Informed by Gerhard Richter's overpainted photographs, where squeegeed paint simultaneously reveals and destroys the image beneath, and by Trevor Paglen's work on the aesthetics of surveillance and invisibility — art that interrogates the politics of what is and isn't permitted to be seen.
An aerial view of a Middle Eastern landscape seen from satellite altitude, filling the entire square frame with no horizon visible....