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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,…
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Giving the blues is a series of photographs and photo gravures of the Cascate delle Marmore, the Marmore waterfalls in Umbria, Italy. It is the largest man made waterfall in the world at 165 metres high, and was created by diverting the Velino River into the Nera River Gorge by the Romans in 271 BC…
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The Atacama desert is the driest place on earth, visible from outer space, and the stone heart of our origin story. I have always been fascinated by its dual narratives of visibility and invisibility- it is where the most advanced astronomical observatories and telescopes are pointed at the sky, the A.L.M.A (Soul, in Spanish) or …
- Rotlicht Photo Festival, Vienna 2025
- Giving the Blues (2025)w.i.p
- Born of a Stone Heart
- Spectral Matters, APT Gallery
- WCPF 21 installation award
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Rotlicht Photo Festival, Vienna 2025
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,…
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Giving the Blues (2025)w.i.p
Giving the blues is a series of photographs and photo gravures of the Cascate delle Marmore, the Marmore waterfalls in Umbria, Italy. It is the largest man made waterfall in the world at 165 metres high, and was created by diverting the Velino River into the Nera River Gorge by the Romans in 271 BC…
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Born of a Stone Heart
The Atacama desert is the driest place on earth, visible from outer space, and the stone heart of our origin story. I have always been fascinated by its dual narratives of visibility and invisibility- it is where the most advanced astronomical observatories and telescopes are pointed at the sky, the A.L.M.A (Soul, in Spanish) or …
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Spectral Matters, APT Gallery
APT Gallery, May 1-18 2025 VICTORIA AHRENS// JOAO VILLAS Spectral Matters is an exhibition by Victoria Ahrens and Joao Villas, whose work references the ephemeral materiality of sound, video, photography and print. Creating installation pieces, they look to deconstruct the photographic image through material interventions, to challenge what ‘matter’ is. Where sound vibrates through a…
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WCPF 21 installation award
Grounding (2021) The installation is called GROUNDING (2021)It is made up of 12 large scale photo etchings, ground rock pigment, two C-type photographic prints, articulated and supported on wooden stilts This installation piece brings together a series of image-objects that challenge our fragmented relationship to the landscape, using handmade photographic pieces and printmaking techniques to do so. In…
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Reseau_lux, bit20.paris
La Poste Rodier, rue Louise-Emilie de la Tour d’Auvergne Representing La biennale de l’image Tangible, as part of 21 Photography Festivals, Reseau_lux is a network of photography forums that come together in the old post office in the 9th arrondissment of Paris during Paris Photo. This opportunity is thanks to Dominique Clerc and Francois Ronsiaux…
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Hypnos and the Dissolution Process (2021)
WITHOUT HORIZON, WITHOUT SHORE, Lambeth County Court SE11 4DZ @geographies_of_print with Victoria Ahrens, Carol Wyss, Victoria Arney Hypnos and the Dissolution Process (2021) 6 monitor video collage installation, sculptured book pieces, photoetchings on stilt supports and photographs with hand applied rock pigment In Greek mythology, Hypnos, the god of sleep, lived in a cave at…
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The Pink Earth (2022-23)
No Thanks to us (2022) video projection on found screens, gallery at PADA, Barreiro Portugal Despite it all (2022) Photograph on vegetal paper, projected collaged moving image, 4 mins 68” looped, wooden batons Nostal-dia (2022) black and white photographs on vegetal paper, projection of moving image, slowing alternating from side to side, red and transparent,…
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Kannski Gallery, solo show
Vestiges of the Unearthed opnar þann 15. júní// Vestiges of the Unearthed opens on the 15th of June Artist:Victoria Ahrens Kannski invites you to ‘Vestiges of the Unearthed’, the first exhibition of Victoria Ahrens’ expanded-photographic work in Reykjavik, Iceland. The image-objects in the exhibition are shaped bythe pigments of abandoned industrial sites, and our encounter…
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FT Weekend Magazine, Photo London supplement commission
Emma Bowkett commissioned me for MY LONDON, for the PHOTO LONDON supplement of the FT weekend magazine this year _________________________________________________________________________________ MY LONDON, PHOTO LONDON SUPPLEMENT, Financial Times Weekend Magazine, 4th May 2024, to accompany PHOTO LONDON at Somerset House In Chumleigh Gardens, in a quiet corner of Camberwell in London, palm tree fronds shade an…
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Without Horizon, Without Shore
Without Horizon, Without Shore at Thames side Gallery, London Geographies of Print, Victoria Ahrens, Carol Wyss and Victoria Arney The notion of a static view of nature is one deeply rooted in a nostalgia for the everlasting; for contemplation in a world where the imperceptible ebb and flow creates a sense of timelessness and of…
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Photo 50 at LAF 24
Photo 50 was curated this year by REVOLV COLLECTIVE with the title Grafting: The Land and the Artist Revolv Collective presented Grafting: The Land and the Artist at Photo50, London Art Fair, 2024. Centred in expanded photographic practice, the collection of works by early and mid-career artists will explore the subject of labour and its diverse representations within the context…
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Sans Horizon, Sans Rivage LA CIOTAT
La Chapelle des Penitents Blues, La Ciotat, France 09/11/23- 02/12/23 Victoria Ahrens- Carol Wyss- Victoria Arney (Geographies of Print) ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….. In this series The Light Between Us (Vestiges of the Unearthed) Victoria is exploring notions of memory and our encounters with the landscapes of the Anthropocene in her photographic images of Deep Time geology. The…
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Vestiges of the Unearthed (The Light Between Us)
Residency at Uillin, West Cork Arts Centre, Skibereen, Ireland Castle island, Lough Hyne (2023) Night photograph, bioluminescent kayak Where film and photography have always dealt with the tension between the haptic surface and the optic illusion, so the recorded marks of deep time reside in both the crevices and fissures of ecological landscapes, where particles…
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mutterings at Peckham 24, A Bigger Book Fair
Organised by Dr. Sharon Young, artist, writer and academic in relation to the Bigger Book Fair and the publication Mutterings, from a collection of writings and artists’ work, which I am a part of. The book contains work, The Lost Exploitation Journals, with my photo etchings and a creative writing piece on Extractivism. For Peckham…
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Noli Mi Tangere (2021-3)
this film commissioned in 2021 by the Peltz Gallery, Birkbeck School of Art is currently on show as part of On Seeing: Perception in Performance and Film as part of Arts Week, part of a live performance by Danai Miliaraki, Noli Mi Tangere (3022) Film with sound, echoes of audio description, performance at Birkbeck School…
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The Fall Out(2023)
The Fall out (2023) Photographic Print on Japanese Kozo paper, photograph as etching, handmade book cover, wooden support structure122 cm x 200 cm (h) The waterfall symbolises a sense of letting go, of cleansing and continuous flow of life. It rains water in cascades as rivers flow over resistant bedrock, falling off steep drops, creating…
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She Speaks Up!
Our desire for beautiful gemstones belies the problematics of their extraction, often environmental or unethically sourced, yet part of a culture of value that goes back thousands of years – the Ancient Egyptians adorned themselves with lapis lazuli, the Mayans used turquoise. Now these stones are becoming rarer and more difficult to mine, as mines…
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Beyond Silver, Birmingham (2022-3)
The Alum Chine is the name of a pathway through the Westbourne pine forests to the beaches on the other side. ‘Chine’ meaning ravine where water once flowed, and ‘alum’ because it is the place where the first chemical works existed in Britain- to extract, manufacture and mine alum and copperas or green vitriol used…
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Stone Tape (2022)
‘A stone tape is a material object that has “recorded” the energy of a past event. Widely popularized by British author Nigel Kneale in his 1972 teleplay The Stone Tape, beliefs in the recording ability of objects and environments span the practices of heritage preservation, paranormal investigation, sound and media theory, and spiritual pilgrimage. But if…
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