Life After Extinction
This work is an immersive video and photography installation that reimagines a post industrial landscape shaped by chemical residue, ecological resilience and spectral beauty. The work speculates on terrain that is at once terrestrial and extraterrestrial; an altered ecology with resilient forms in unnaturally vivid pigmentations, where human presence lingers through stains, residues and distorted geologies. It proposes an ambiguous future tense: one where the landscape is read not as ruin but as inheritance. Rooted in questions of queer ecology, speculative archaeology and post humanism, the images and projections, made in situ with chemical residues, pigments and analogue film, work as speculative acts- witnessing and reimagining what the earth remembers.
Victoria Ahrens 