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Isabelle Carbonell
Isabelle Carbonell "The Yellow Brick Road" Iconic Wizard of Oz Set of Four

2006

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"The Yellow Brick Road" is 1 of a set of 4 digital prints whose titles were inspired by the iconic film The Wizard of Oz starring Judy Garland. The other three are titled: The Land of Oz, Kansas, and Somewhere Over the Rainbow. Signed on lower front. The Wizard of Oz film has become a cult classic and its underlying complicated emotional longings for family and home have fed themes in numerous movies from those directed and produced by David Lynch in Wild at Heart and Mulholland Drive to Twin Peaks. Links also include Back to the Future directed by Robert Zemeckis to Steven Spielberg's E. T. Extra-terrestrial. Both the main characters are transported to environments unknown to them that is initially interesting and both overcome all odds to return to Home - the main theme in The Wizard of Oz. Something of particular interest in this print is that half is bright color and the other half is black and white. Why? The Yellow Brick Road actually served a dual purpose in The Wizard of Oz. The road took Dorothy to both the Land of Oz to meet the great Wizard and he in turn was to be the means for her to "home" or Kansas. Whenever scenes from "home/Kansas" were shown on screen it was in black and white so it seems appropriate that this road shares the technicolor of The Land of Oz and black and white of Kansas. Each of the four photos is framed by an open window with shutters. The artist, Isabelle Carbonell, is a Belgian-Uruguayan-American award-winning documentary filmmaker, a PhD Candidate at the University of California, Santa Cruz and a film Professor at the American University of Paris thinking through a cinema of the Anthropocene. Her interests lie with environmental studies. One might interpret these prints as framing landscapes of the incredibly beautiful earth which we currently enjoy, but in the future with climate change and disasters may be as phantasmagorical as the characters and unearthly fantasy of the Land of Oz. Anthropocene relates the current geological age, viewed as the period during which human activity has been the dominant influence on climate and the environment. Her work has been described as lying at the intersection of expanded documentary, environmental justice, invasive species, eco-disasters, multispecies ethnography, and “the possibility of life in capitalist ruins”. Her scholarship has been published in the Internet Policy Review, Conexión Journal, and the Cultural Anthropology Journal. Isabelle Carbonell has the following description of herself and her work on her website: Her research and practice lie at the intersection of expanded documentary, environmental justice, and the Anthropocene, while striving to develop new visual and sonic approaches and methods to rethink documentary filmmaking and create a multispecies cinema. Imbued in all her work is the connection between the slow violence of environmental disaster, climate change, bodies of water, more-than-humans, and the future. Isabelle’s award-winning films and installation works have been presented in museums, film festivals, and art galleries internationally. She has received support via a Mellon dissertation fellowship, the Princess Grace Foundation, HKW/Max Planck Institute research grant, Berkeley Human Rights fellowship, and Georgetown Environmental Initiative grant among others. Isabelle produces film, productions and digital media such as the Set of Four largescale prints loosely incorporating landscapes with titles that conger up the film, The Wizard of Oz. She received a B.A. R.C. in Social Science and a B.A. in Environmental Science from the University of Michigan and a M.A. from the University of California, Santa Cruz where she is currently a PhD Candidate.
  • Creator:
    Isabelle Carbonell
  • Creation Year:
    2006
  • Dimensions:
    Height: 32 in (81.28 cm)Width: 48 in (121.92 cm)
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  • Gallery Location:
    Detroit, MI
  • Reference Number:
    1stDibs: LU1286111544932

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