David Cotterrell at the John Hansard gallery.

An immersive experience here, as David Cotterrell swaps Sheffield Hallam University (where he is a Fine Art professor) for Southampton’s academic quarter, bringing with him a cinematic portrayal of his journeys to Afghanistan in a series of works galvanising complex technology.

David Cotterrell.

Review:

After two years of studying and resourcing the Afghanistan landscape, Cotterrell has created an exhibition on the reflection on war and the man destroyed horizons.

Its hard to beleive that this landscape has seen so much more than we choose to think or believe. The photography does it justice in the sense that it is peaceful and controlled, although the death and blood loss has been retrieved and extracted through the imagery.

David Cotterrell

David Cotterrell

David Cotterrell

Gallery one had a curvature set up, with a projected image of the Afghanistan horizon. There stood three men and one i the background. To me could only show the distance, loneliness and death of the soldiers who fought.

Cotterrell used small connect cameras around the room. The amount of people, impacted the second piece in gallery two.

The close up of the hand sculpted landscape has projected people walking around.
As the quantity in Gallery one increases, the increase of projected people on the chalk made landscape.

Gallery two had an offset, into a tiny gap hallway, either side sat two hand made dome's, projected with a live fed view from above of the nothingness that the desert now holds. 
A panoramic display creating an atmosphere to only be described as beauty.