In an interview Robert Smithson once likened his creative process to "a kind of mental volcano ." Regina Virserius's lush, almost pictorial photographs of volcanoes seem a world apart from Smithson's cool, abstract postminimalist works. However, for her just as for the American artist the volcano stands as a powerful emblem of an artistic process that attempts to explore the paradox of mind and matter: highlighting the material nature of the mind; sculpting matter with the mind to form mental landscapes.  More...