Ambiguous Landscapes

Toronto based artist Lisa Klapstock has led a prolific career in photography and video installation. Her work seeks to explore the boundaries between realism and abstraction through the manipulation of film. She describes her process as a “mechanism of seeing,” as she explores the role of the camera in relation to how we view or experience our surroundings. Her video installation, Ambiguous Landscapes (2003-2005), is comprised of large-scale photo diptychs and a 5-screen video. Focusing on the natural and the man-made landscape, the moving images are looped at random as the work confronts the empty or occupied space of everyday places and their human occupation. Klapstock has exhibited in many public institutions, including the Art Gallery of Ontario, the Museum Van Nagsael in Holland, the Museum of Photography in Florida, and The Center for Photography in New York.