In recent years the view from above, a once exceptional point of view reserved to people in power and inhuman agents like birds, angels and gods, has become widespread and accessible. In 2011, artist and writer Hito Steyerl introduced the concept of ‘vertical perspective' to address the "departure of a stable paradigm of orientation", and to describe what can be seen, to all effects, as the emergence of a new scopic regime. By adopting vertical perspective as its main point of view, the exhibition explores the way in which our look on landscapes through the camera eye has changed along the last decades.
