Victoria Ahrens

Victoria Ahrens is a multidisciplinary artist living and working in London, UK.

Victoria’s work looks at the photographic image as a contested site of touch, a place to stage an intervention. She makes image objects that draw on historical, geological and ecological narratives, using photographic images, transfer prints, video projections, drawing and sculptural objects to embody inner and outer landscapes- places where the mineral and the human collide. Her photographs and videos are often made in situ- developed and exposed in the spaces they depict- as she searches for an affective resonance and the re-enactment of the hand-made. This acts as a performative and futile resistance to discourses of acceleration, and disappearance in the Anthropocene. In this encounter with place, she is looking for what is beyond the map, beyond the margins, beyond the form, in order to delineate and demarcate the edges of her practice with collaged and contingent images that look to question these boundaries and measure our relationship with the spaces we inhabit through understandings of ‘deep time’.

PADA is an Art Residency & Gallery based in a post-industrial site near Lisbon, Portugal.

Video by Apertura Studios.

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