Through challenging camera angles Menno Aden
abstracts most familiar actual living environments and public interiors
into flattened two-dimensional scale models. A camera that the artist
installed on the ceiling of various rooms takes pictures downwards of
the interiors. The resulting images lay out space in symmetrical
compositions that look like assemblages stripped off any kind of
objectivity. The views into private homes and secret retreats bring up
associations of the ubiquitous observation camera. The notion of
surveillance is systematically played out by the artist to hint at
society’s voyeuristic urge that popular culture has made mainstream.
