Art reviews: Kelly Richardson at Dundee Contemporary Arts | Sue Tompkins at The Modern Institute, Glasgow
The first Scottish exhibition by Canadian artist Kelly Richardson takes its title from a 2005 book about climate change by Tim Flannery. Therefore we learn early on, if we read the handout, that there is an environmental thrust to this body of work. Richardson’s audio-visual installations look like landscapes created for science-fiction films. This show brings together three large-scale moving tableaux. Shown on big screens in a blacked-out space with surround-sound, they signal to us that we are entering the realm of cinema (this show has been programmed in partnership with the Discovery Film Festival), though without action, characters or plot. They are more like landscape paintings set in motion.

