Invasive species, tropical storms, and the cold North Sea (2022)
What is the connection between bright-red kiosks on a Brazilian beach, heaps of putrefying water lilies, and two blocked rivers? What does the nationality of fungi have to do with the ideology of dams? How can material and symbolic by-products of globalised capitalism make visible the transatlantic forces of the ideology of progress?
Invasive species, tropical storms, and the cold North Sea investigates these questions by taking a set of photographs produced during an unpretentious walk by the sea at the end of a rainy holiday as its starting point. In the second part of the work, such photographs are juxtaposed with appropriated images collected from various sources, three short essays and a list of bibliographical references.
In this work, the montage of discrete elements appears as a crucial tool for giving visibility to that which reason deems as abstract and invisible. Macro and microscopic life, climate and politics are thought of here in continuity as a way of rehearsing an imagination autochthonous to modernity but which may challenge criteria of logic, locality and causality (modern par excellence).
