Where i first met you [2024] is a series of 4 hand-colored photoengravings. In this series, the main focus is to recreate the illusion of “invasive” and “alien” notions applied to Invasive Alien Species. Specifically, represented species are: Arundo donax, Phytolacca americana, Tradescantia fluminensis and Eucalyptus globulus.
Technical information
Year: 2024
Paper size: 74.5 x 59 cm
Matrix size: 42 x 59 cm
Technique: Handcolored photoengraving
Edition: 5 u.
Printshop: Edited in Ogamipress,
Madrid during an artistic residency
In Where I first met you we observe selected species as individuals embedded by its invasive and alien species connotations.
By using un-realistic colors and changing the original chromatography of the image we play with the viewer perception of nature, evidencing its reality as a societal and cultural construction.
