Work part of a visual research through materiality on the commoditization of nature in the context of the tourist industry in Iceland. Developed in Reykjavík with the SIM artist-in-residence program.

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Gentrification, waste and environmental degradation are some of the problems related to tourism, challenging the idealized image of the Icelandic landscape. During my stay, I photographed highly visited natural locations, which I reinterpreted in combination with the creation of my own handmade recycled paper from waste.

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This exploration mirrors the transformative process of manifesting something from the void — a form of alchemy of waste — with the delicate equilibrium of our environment, and the perpetual cycle it follows.