Paul Landon

Paul Landon is a researcher and artist whose work explores the activities of wandering and travelling as a contemporary artistic practice and considers the devices and structures, both material and abstract, informing and affecting these activities. He engages in a wandering method to stumble upon places and things that resonate with recent history, both personal and collective. Many of these are the forgotten ruins or lost artefacts of the international modernist project, a project that shaped Landon’s imagination and understanding of the world since his early childhood.

He has recently embarked on a series of works that take the form of short descriptive texts, or essays, that recount sites visited on his travels as well as ‘unvisitable’ sites, places that no longer exist but that still resonate historically. Landon asks if it is possible that, with research like his, based in an art practice, the requirement to write about artwork makes the artwork itself take the form of a depiction, to become work that invites interpretation and reading. Along with writing texts, he produces work recalling the visual conventions of depiction, work informed by maps, diagrams, schematic drawings, documentary photographs and scientific films.

While on residency in Saari, he will compile and edit the texts, he has written, with the goal of completing several chapters of his doctoral dissertation for the Finnish Academy of Fine Arts.

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