Red Lines with Landscapes at The Usher Gallery

Photo by Jules Lister, courtesy of The Collection Museum
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Photo by Jules Lister, courtesy of The Collection Museum
Photo by Jules Lister, courtesy of The Collection Museum
Photo by Jules Lister, courtesy of The Collection Museum
Courtesy The Artangel Collection, photo by Jules Lister
Photo by Jules Lister, courtesy of The Collection Museum
Photo by Jules Lister, courtesy of The Collection Museum
Photo by Jules Lister, courtesy of The Collection Museum

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Title:Red Lines with Landscapes at The Usher Gallery
Institution:The Collection Museum
Date:June 1 - September 15, 2019
Location:Lincoln, UK

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This exhibition presents American artist Evan Roth's Artangel 2018-19 commission, Red Lines, streamed via the internet from coastal sites around the world directly into the gallery, alongside works from The Usher Gallery's landscape collection.

Roth's Red Lines project is a network of mesmerising video landscapes, filmed in infrared from sites around the world where the cables that make the internet possible emerge from the sea.

For this exhibition, Roth has personally selected works from the museum's collection of 18th and 19th century landscape paintings and sketches, including work by Peter DeWint, JMW Turner and Edward Lear. By contrasting the old and the new, this exhibition explores the history, power structures and ideologies that shape our visible and non-visible contemporary landscape.

Red Lines furthers Roth's exploration of another side of the internet, one that moves at the speed of the weather, wind and tide. In this age of immediacy, visitors are invited to take time to look slowly at these different presentations of landscape.

— Usher Gallery

Red Lines is commissioned and produced by Artangel. The project is generously supported by Creative Capital.