Akhenaton - The Cloudless and Nightless Archipelago
Triptychs (2021)
C-Type photographic prints on cotton paper (Ed. 3 + 1 A.P.)
75 x 100 cm / 29 x 39 in
Patricia Borges
Broken economic models incentivize the degradation of land, destroy ecosystems and fuel climate change. Several photographic projects register on aerial images massive mining operations, industrial pollution ponds merging with the ocean, oil spills, natural disasters of fire, melting glaciers and landscape modifications in the Anthropocene.
Without getting on a plane for a year now, due to the travel restrictions imposed by the pandemic, I decided to build reminders of geographic formations in an attempt to evoke the poignancy and melancholy that come with the disappearance of something beautiful in the natural world. In a reverse mining process, I build my landscapes with deposits of ferric oxides, rust and salts. I fly over the uninhabited Akhenaton archipelago with its landscapes of eternal sun - terra incognita. Images of these sites are abstract, organic, and painterly, offering viewers detailed, open-ended information that operates on a metaphorical level as much as a documentary one. Once again I play with the concept of truth, using fake images and real news.
C-Type photographic prints on cotton paper (Ed. 3 + 1 A.P.)
75 x 100 cm / 29 x 39 in
Patricia Borges
Broken economic models incentivize the degradation of land, destroy ecosystems and fuel climate change. Several photographic projects register on aerial images massive mining operations, industrial pollution ponds merging with the ocean, oil spills, natural disasters of fire, melting glaciers and landscape modifications in the Anthropocene.
Without getting on a plane for a year now, due to the travel restrictions imposed by the pandemic, I decided to build reminders of geographic formations in an attempt to evoke the poignancy and melancholy that come with the disappearance of something beautiful in the natural world. In a reverse mining process, I build my landscapes with deposits of ferric oxides, rust and salts. I fly over the uninhabited Akhenaton archipelago with its landscapes of eternal sun - terra incognita. Images of these sites are abstract, organic, and painterly, offering viewers detailed, open-ended information that operates on a metaphorical level as much as a documentary one. Once again I play with the concept of truth, using fake images and real news.
