At the beginning of last year I was on my way to finishing the third chapter of my project on space exploration, On the Overwhelming Importance of the Far Future 2017-Ongoing. Because of the pandemic, this had to be put on hold. Parallel to this, I kept working on Second Nature, my project about algorithms, bias and ecological justice. It has three different veins, and I’m coming to the final stages of the first of them. This will be exhibited in York as part of the Aesthetica Art Prize 2021, and in Germany as part of Biennale für aktuelle Fotografie 2022. The second vein is being developed during my time at the Ampersand/Photoworks Residency, and the third is in the research and development stage.
‘During my stay at Wigwell Lodge, I’ll also develop a new body of work titled Simulated Order. A fictional scientist, Marina Mosqueda, visits Derbyshire to study, classify, rename, and reclaim the flora and fauna of the area for her Latin American country of origin. She will be taming the wilderness and subjecting it to her will, looking to create order from chaos. Because of the pandemic, I miss the conversations that would normally take place at gallery spaces. To recreate these, I am also conducting a series of video podcasts around themes of body, bias and technologies. I thought it would be great to have a record of these conversations with a different tone and rhythm, in which we relate to each other, connect, respond, and build a vision for a future in a post-pandemic world.’