The landscape photography of Olivia Guigue concentrates itself on the boundary point of the urban metropolitan landscape where it abuts onto nature and the definitive meeting point of these two extreme opposites. The man made object colliding with the organic simplicity of nature. At some points these seemingly opposite areas seem to naturally merge together, for instance in the tangled wires dumped in the undergrowth that seem to merge with the organic fauna in such a way that makes the perfect transition point, the boundary layer that exists between all things, which is in fact an imaginary point. There is no definitive difference between man made and organic. These “genuine landscapes”, as the artist likes to call them, represent a very particular place which could on the one hand be seen as aesthetic and on the other just slices of a reality ignored by most. In one example, an off-white piece of PVC half submerged in water becomes the metaphor for a cosmic interstellar landscape made by NASA, rather than a small roadside ditch that has been contaminated with oil. These images then take us on a journey, such as the Victorian landscape painting tradition, by transporting the viewer to a place whereby he can view back on him or herself, momentarily stepping outside the immediate reality.

Zuzanna Baumgarten, 2017