Lu Forsberg: Transparency and other worries
Historical and contemporary depictions of the Australian landscape are a core interest of Lu Forsberg’s practice. Transparency and other worries engages with the landscape of central and north Queensland – home to rugged bushland, cattle stations, the Great Barrier Reef, and the proposed Carmichael Coal Mine. Another central focus of Forsberg’s work is access: access to information, access to physical sites, and social access. Their work often employs online mapping as a way to gain admission to geographies beyond the artist’s reach. This project presents the limitations, as well as the possibilities, of technological access. The artist combines footage from online mapping with their own first-hand observations to help make sense of something typically seen from a mediated or detached viewpoint.