Milán Radisics | Sur/Real Lands

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SUR/REAL LANDS

The SUR/REAL LANDS series was created at the end of 2018 in the driest parts of Spain. Photographer Milán Radisics visited the hills of Zaragoza and Toledo, where agricultural land lays between the ridges of dried-up water courses. These areas are more accessible, and the fertile soil of the dune helps withstand the dry summer season. Therefore, the pictures feature only two crops; olives, which can tolerate the scorching heat, and wheat, which will mature in early summer before the drought.

Local farmers are most likely unaware of their abstract creations, which are only visible from above. After a lengthy and tedious search, the photographer selected fascinating formations through satellite maps and captured them on location.

The finished works are aerial photographs that appear to be abstract paintings. They are landscapes with no horizon. This perspective gives new meaning to the landscape: the hills become patches, and the steps between the hill transform into stone walls, creating a map-like imprint on what appears to be a painter's canvas. Space and time disappear, leaving it up to the viewer to see either million-year-old geology, early-century surrealism, an everyday struggle, or a barren land from the future.

The exhibition was also featured in Index Big Picture: https://index.hu/nagykep/2019/09/24/radisics_milan_sur_real_lands_fotosorozat_spanyolorszag_absztrakt_kepek