Industrial Interventions

In the series Industrial Interventions, the concepts of New Topographics merge with those of Arte Povera. At this abandoned mine site, industrial relics dominate the landscape. I emphasize this imposition on the landscape by isolating the industrial elements on a white veil that obscures what remains of the landscape in the image. The black-on-white effect is stark and brutal. I treat rusty steel shapes as found objects, according to the principles of Arte Povera, highlighting their sculptural and intrinsic plasticity. However, this aesthetic is also used to demonstrate the dominance of human activity. Despite the fact that this series is about landscape, the landscape itself is reduced, veiled and cropped out of the image. What remains is the industrial detritus. These photographs can be read as the expression of the poetry of the found object, but they are also, and more importantly, a work on the dialectic between man and his environment.