Land Art
What is Land Art?
Land Art appeared as an artistic trend in 60’s, driven by artists who come out of workshops, galleries and museums and wanted to work with and within Nature.
Primarily, Land Art is based on a concept, which promotes a harmony and a dialogue with the natural environment.
Therefore, Land Art uses the natural environment as the main medium of expression. The artist’s work intervenes into the spatial components of nature. The use of natural materials, such as wood, earth, stone, sand, rock, water, landscape and natural phenomena are used. The installations evolve over time. They eventually biodegrade and/or erode: this form of art is therefore temporal, it questions our relationship with the ephemeral, sustainability, the fragility and strength of Mother Nature.
For the Ouroboros Team association, Land Art is a means to redefine the relationship between man and nature, as well as a means to call for a collective citizen action.
Ouroboros Team assumes his conception of the Land Art according to the following parameters:
A symbol: the Ourobouros
From the Maya to alchemists across all civilizations and time, the snake biting its tail is a symbol of the self regulation of nature and life.
A witness art
The work is motivated by the desire to act on a situation, an environmental issue, or the need to enhance the actors, to promote common values.
Redefining the human-nature
Install art in nature, create art that is alive, changing, prey to the vagaries of chance and abandoned to the will of nature and its physical phenomena.
It is a way to give back to nature its rights, denouncing the claim of a human control over natural resources. Praise of the ephemeral, nomadic, moving constantly, secondment, this approach redefines the report of man with nature, a report in harmony with the universal laws which govern it and that we find in the wisdom of primitive peoples.
An environmental art
The group wants a different look at the consequences of our over-consumption.
Jaffa Israel Project The need for open borders and territories
Artists practice an art whose meaning emerges primarily from contact with the soil and land surface. They see the world as a workshop, a place of creation and continuous contact with the peoples encountered.
Through their partnership with space agencies of the countries concerned, the artists establish a connection between Art and Science by using one of the most human technological advances, the satellite, to question the future of a global economy and its impact on our planet.
The satellite picture as a representation of the work is the willingness of artists to consider the Earth as a vast workshop, ignoring borders to gather men around a common and urgent cause.
Egypt Sinai Google map locating the project Sinai Egypt