As an Artist,
I am interested in thinking and formulating new strategies to represent nature
and nonhuman beings. Through an analysis of the ways language and images shape
our relationship with surrounding nature, I examine the deep-rooted hegemonic
narratives of instrumentalisation, consumption, and spectacle operating in
nonhuman and nature representation. By posing the question of the ethical
status of images, I also examine the role of the Artist and the structures of
the gaze which is mostly fixed in binary dynamics of subject/objecthood and
appropriation/ representation. I aim to have a critical perspective on the
position of the Artist as a renderer of worlds. Thus, I bite my tongue and
chase my own tail.
As a Storyteller,
I use language, mediated image, text-based projects as matter to explore
counter-anthropocentric strategies of representation to shape curiosity for
more- than-human narratives and to suggest an attention rooted in affects
towards nonhuman worlds. By doing this, I examine the mechanism through which
we share knowledge, produce knowledge and tell stories about nature, trying to
take a conscious distance from linear or predatory accounts.
As an Observer,
I relay on the abundant pleasures and rich proliferation of affects provided by
the act of situated observation and on fabulation, to open the door to
alternative imaginaries and constructing possibilities for other ways of seeing
and knowing. I look for a space for construction –potentiality- where
fabulation and speculation operate as methodologies of attunement with nonhuman
worlds and surrounding nature, rather than the schemes of a devouring sight and
rapacious imagination.