Corridors of Memory
LiDAR scans, residents’ memories and spatial sound become an inhabitable archive of homes in Overschild. Presented at the Groninger Museum in 2026.
Groninger Museum · 2026
Photography, spatial capture & immersive art
Art, memory & changing landscapes
Gus Drake is an interdisciplinary artist based in Amsterdam. He works with landscapes and communities undergoing change, using photography, LiDAR and sound to create images and immersive environments.
Selected contexts
Recognition
1st Prize
FJD Trion Reality Capture Stories Competition
Awarded to Corridors of Memory.
Selected projects
Ways of seeing, remembering and inhabiting a changing world.
Landscapes in Motion
A year of observing a garden through four cameras: an archive of more than 300,000 photographs revealing rhythms of growth, decay and seasonal change.
Supported by the Mondriaan Fonds
New Horizon Initiative
Developed with Dirk-Jan Visser, an inquiry into how non-human interests can enter decisions about shared landscapes through photography, ecology and computational image-making.
First pilot presented at COP27
Commissions & collaborations
Drake develops new works and contributes to wider exhibition and research teams.
01 / DOCUMENTARY
People, places & living histories
Photography, interviews and film grounded in a sustained engagement with a place and the people who know it.
02 / SPATIAL CAPTURE
From a place to a spatial image
LiDAR fieldwork and scan-based imagery for heritage interpretation, exhibitions and artistic projects.
03 / IMMERSIVE ART
Stories encountered in space
Artistic direction and collaborative development of installations that bring images, spatial environments and sound together.