Ken Fandell

The Sky Elsewhere (Northern California, Lower Austria and Northern Italy, 2003), 2004
Montaged photographs/inkjet print
60"x108"
Courtesy the artist and Bodybuilder + Sportsman Gallery, Chicago

Ken Fandell graduated with a MFA in Photography and New Genres from the University of Illinois at Chicago. His assembled skies reveal disparate geographies, seasons and times of day. Fandell’s photos and video work are as much self-reflexive musings on the larger mysteries of life, as they are collaged information that conflates science and artistic enterprise.

“By montaging photographs taken at widely diverse places and at different times of day, these skies are horizon-less, devoid of the telltale signs of direction, place, time or scale. These skies serve as backdrops not for predetermined scenes, but for what the viewer might project onto them. The utterly impossible, fantastical image of a single sky that is both the day and night and above various places is here rendered plausible. The dimensions of time and space are collapsed and skewed in a medium that is precisely associated with its ability to define such dimensions.”