Folded Parana

VictoriaAhrens_foldedparana_3Folded Paraná (2015) Photo etching on fabriano rosaspina paper, 80 cm (h) x 150 cm (w)

From the series of photo-etchings exposed and developed on the banks of the Paraná with water from the river. The last known resting place of thousands of Argentina’s political disappeared during the Dirty War, the plates are embued with the dna of these lost lives, while the iron rich waters serve to hide in their depths the fragments of their history.

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