<Burning Echoes> explores fragile and fiery landscape of Costa da Morte (Coast of Death) in Galicia - a region scarred by the frequent bushfires that are intensifying with the effects of climate change. The infrared film with its ability to reveal light beyond the visible spectrum, becomes a metaphor for unveiling the often invisible forces driving environmental devastation.

Infrared film transforms the natural world into a surreal and spectral terrain, where vegetation glows unnaturally bright, starkly contrasted against charred earth and ash-laden skies. This spectral quality mirrors the duality of life and destruction: the resilience of nature and the relentless grip of fire. 

Costa da Morte - a place named for its treacherous shores has become a locus of ecological fragility. Rising temperatures, prolonged droughts, and changing weather patterns have turned this verdant land into a tinderbox. Eucalyptus plantations which was introduced for their economic value fuel the fires with their oily and flammable foliage. In these photographs, the tension between nature's beauty and its vulnerability to human and climatic forces emerges with visceral clarity.

The work invites viewers to reflect on what remains unseen: the carbon released into the atmosphere, the slow deaths of ecosystems, and the global connections between distant wildfires and our shared climate crisis. By making the invisible visible, these photographs intend to evoke both the burning heat of the flames and the haunting afterimage of what has been lost and spark a deeper awareness of the urgent need for collective action to address the causes of climate change and protect the landscapes that sustain us.

Burning Echoes is not only a documentation of a specific place and time but also a meditation on our complex relationship with nature, a reminder that destruction and renewal are entwined and that the choices we make today will shape the landscapes of tomorrow.

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-The Unobserved, Group Exhibition with ArtDoc 28 Oct 2024 - 12 Dec 2024.