
Ursula Schulz-Dornburg’s video ‘Drawing the Line’, 2006 was featured in the exhibition ‘Shaping Atmospheres’ (Oct 2–Dec 21, 2024) at the The John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design at the University of Toronto.
In 2006 Ursula Schulz-Dornburg traveled to Khor Virab in Armenia to photograph Mount Ararat and make the video ‘Drawing the Line’.
“Throughout history Mount Ararat has been a place of mythological imagination and political struggles, of strife and conquest, loss and longing…In this video the mountain turns into the very symbol of borders, the dividing lines that humans impose on the land they inhabit to fragment and divide it into physical and spiritual territories, and to control access and use.” – Hartwig Fischer
The exhibition ‘Shaping Atmospheres’ centers around an immersive looping film program:
“In medias res, the exhibition opens with the soundscape of a solar eclipse, enwrapping the listener in a moment of darkness before the first light of the Sun breaks the cosmic stillness. Harkening back to when these occurrences were powerful celestial events, the proceeding video returns to ancient Iranian Mithraic practices when sun worship was perhaps forged as a response to an ecological disaster over 4,000 years ago.” –Shaping Atmospheres Exhibition