2013
Bucolics is a project that explores the idealization of the landscape and how this is affected as the city grows. It also addresses the traces left by human beings and how these traces signify humanity's need to civilize everything.
The paths and structures convey a mark inscribed into the transitioning landscape. That transit has no owner, leaving us open to the future of these regions, allowing us to idealize them once again.
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On the Transgression of the Bucolic
We speak of the bucolic as the evocation of an idealized countryside or life within it. However, the purity it refers to stems from its poetic baggage. It is this very transgression of idealization that is revealed in these images. (Simultaneously, it ends up corrupting the images themselves). We witness how the landscape transforms, leaving behind the utopian countryside. Yet, it also resists, gradually slipping away from us. Few places are as poetic and personal as the rural landscape.
Bucolic, its definition could be symptomatic for this project. (There are several dualities within it). It could be said that the bucolic lies between the poetic and poetry itself. Simultaneously, the ideal of the countryside also references the life that develops within it. This is why the project has two parts: one focuses on how the countryside is affected by transformation, while the other examines how life within it reacts to this.