The three morphologies were found in the sample when returned back to Earth.
The three morphologies were found in the sample when returned back to Earth.
The three morphologies were found in the sample when returned back to Earth.
The three morphologies were found in the sample when returned back to Earth.
The three morphologies were found in the sample when returned back to Earth.
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Exhibition view.
Lost Landscape
(2019)
Talbot Rice Gallery.
It is a multimedia installation focused on narrating the rapid disappearance of an ecosystem located in central Chile. The Name swamp is an almost extinct wetland that used to host a diversity of life forms, including the black-necked swan among many other species of birds, mammals, and insects. A series of factors, including extensive monoculture pine plantations, the misuse of water resources in agricultural cultivation, livestock farming, and climate change have stressed this fragile ecosystem, severely threatening its continuity.
All these factors amplified their destructive influence following the "Las Máquinas" fire in January 2017, the most voracious fire recorded in Chile's recent history, affecting 587,000 hectares of the country's territory.
The installation consisted of a record of the remnants of the fire and its effects on the already dying Name ecosystem. The record incorporated the use of various technologies, such as drone use for aerial recording at different heights associated with the presence of different species of mammals and birds, satellite images assisted with 3D topographies on the geographical characteristics of the place, and objects collected and then scanned with 3D technology, producing a record with a quasi-forensic character. The large-scale installation, presented in the exhibition space of Talbot Rice Gallery, aimed to immerse the viewer in a display of images that accounted for the different speeds and scales of a vanishing landscape, leaving behind the marks of anthropogenic destruction.
