Ola Lanko

“Mountain” is a three-dimensional collage comprising hundreds of photographs of depicted landscapes from all over the world. The installation is an assemblage created form images made by different people which are accessible on the internet for all sorts of reasons. Already with its invention photography became a handy tool to fulfil peoples desire to keep the memory about visited places. The photograph became a kind of a souvenir that can be taken home from adventures and travels. Through time little has changed in peoples desired. The only thing that has changed is the amount of images has risen enormously and more places then ever has been appropriated through photography. Today it is possible to talk about a virtual copy of the world composed from numerous images that is constantly growing and making the model more and more complete. “Mountain” is a photograph of a landscape taken in this virtual environment, a new type of picture that depicts the results of modern developments in visual culture. One of the many beautiful vistas that can be found in the visual model of the world created and maintained collectively.