Transportation at the Venice Biennale

摘要

Located in the "Freespace" exhibition at the Arsenale, "Somewhere Other" is a highly refined machine, ungainly in outline but richly surfaced in a dark-grained wood. As the funnel-shaped envelope suggests, the installation is a telescope, but one that affords multiple points of view. "It's a long lens that transports you all the way to Australia," says Melbourne-based John Wardle, pointing into the narrow end, where a grooved armature receives the viewer's face and points to it a screen displaying his firm's work. At the wide end, visitors walk into the structure, only to be confronted by a disorienting series of turns inside mirrored walls.