By addressing the relationship between memory, the built environment and imagined space, the work continues the artist’s practice of highlighting the fragility of landscapes and objects in their coexistence with the human one.

Witnesses sculptures inhabit the space in a synecdoche of a lost land, creating a dried, burnt landscape to wander through. The incompleteness of the landscape creates a powerful poetics of memory, able to capture the grieving of the Earth through these subtle fragmentations. The black glass is deprived of its main function, namely light shining through; this opaque state unravels the trauma and displays it under the shape of these defined sculptures. By shattering the light, the sunflowers turn into mourning sentinels.

Outraged about the Ukrainian burnt sunflower fields in the current Russian invasion, the artist’s desire to commemorate nature turned into spiky and eerie sunflowers, like shadows of multi-generational traumas, histories of subjugation that brutally reverberate into the present.