Seeing and Believing
Earth Not a Globe
â a text claiming that the Earthâs surface was flat, not round. The conspiracy theory has since brought together a large community of individuals known as “Flat Earthers”. Across the featured atmospheric landscapes and still lifes, Belgian photographer Philippe Braquenier (b. 1985) critiques Rowbotham’s influence in a post-truth era.
Braquenier’s new exhibition at The Ravestijn Gallery, Amsterdam, explores a variety of “Flat-Earth” theories. Continents float on an endless ocean. Our Earth is a disc under a glass dome. The Antarctic ocean is bordered by a 150-foot-tall ice-cliff. In this series, the artist stages and documents his own experiments into these claims