Inventory of Absences
Each day, something vanishes from the natural environment: a fragment of a glacier, a stretch of forest, a living species. Since 2021, much of my research has drawn directly on changes in the environment. I begin with what I witness myself. I observe the world attentively to capture even small shifts in my direct surroundings: lakes no longer safe for swimming, soil contaminated with toxins, skies darkened by coal emissions, the disappearance of insects. Furthermore, I study scientific reports and white papers, downloading and examining documentation of environmental damage.
I see it as my obligation toward future generations to record humanity’s ongoing destruction of Earth’s ecosystems, to make it visible to a broader public, and to place it in archives. I view my works as artistic translations of painful data, painful loss, and painful behavioral patterns.
The inventory is assembled into archives and spans texts, prints, performances, installations, video works, sound pieces, and land art.
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