Yuri Pattison will participate in Radical Landscapes is a major group exhibition at Tate Liverpool that explores our connections to the rural landscapes of Britain. The show presents rural spaces as sites of artistic inspiration and action, and a heartland for ideas of freedom, mysticism and rebellion. It explores how artists have reclaimed the landscape as a space to make art for everyone, as well as unearth how the countryside has been shaped by our values and use of the land. The show will also consider the human impact on the landscape and ecosystems, by featuring works that reflect on the climate and its impact on the landscape including, such as Yuri Pattison’s "sun[set] provisioning", 2019.

In this sculptural work, a solar disk hovers at the horizon’s edge, dispersing illumination across a foreground of clouds and sky. This is a product of Pattison’s interrogative, polemical and post-technological research practice. The work collects digital information, tracking pollution levels in the air, and then translates this information visually as a constantly morphing, sublime, virtual reality ocean sunset.

The exhibition comes at a time when the COVID-19 pandemic has made us all re-evaluate our relationship with the landscape, the accessibility of green space and the profound human need to connect and commune with land and nature.