the world is violent enough by noper

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in "the world is violent enough," noper turns toward the pastoral not as a nostalgic return to untouched nature, but as a contemporary act of resistance. Where historical pastoral painting imagined the countryside as a refuge from the pressures of urban life, noper locates refuge in the fragile, overlooked intervals of the present: wind over water, lightning behind clouds, streetlights filtered through trees, the quiet familiarity of neighborhoods after dark. These works extend the questions raised by the exhibition "The New American Pastoral: Landscape Photography in the Age of Questioning," in which landscape could no longer be treated as innocent or separate from modern life. noper’s videos do not deny the violence of the world; they begin from its saturation. Alarms, screens, traffic, displacement, ecological loss, and constant media exposure form the unseen pressure around each image. Against this, the artist offers no grand escape, only small acts of attention.

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midwest summer ends

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ID#127

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