Holden Luntz Gallery - 15.11.2022

Francesca Piqueras on Man and Nature

The contemporary interest in the Anthropocene is crucial to an understanding of Francesca Piquera’s photographic work. The idea of the Anthropocene is that it marks the first time in nature’s historic timeline in which human activities have been the prime motivators for the changing environmental impact on the earth. Her photographs show the forces of a dynamic instability and the “influence of man on the landscape, on its environment, on nature, and its vital space.” Although she does not show human beings in her photographs – their presence is suggested by the forces they collectively have asserted on the balance of natural forces. A tipping point has been reached in the land, the air, and the sea and as humans endeavor to try to mine the resources from this Earth, their activities have unleashed a new dynamic that is quickly altering the world as we have known it.