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In the project Nature Is Out of Control, part I-VI (2020-2024), I explore the ethical complexities of human’s relationship with nature through a series of works spanning various media—photography, video, and sound. By integrating time-lapse imagery, biodata sonification technology, and analogue photography, the works highlight nature’s resilience as well as its fragility, alongside the often-unpredictable consequences of human intervention. 

The theme centres on how we disrupt and influence natural ecosystems. Intentionally or unintentionally, we relocate animals, plants, and other organisms from their natural habitats. In new environments, some species become invasive, negatively impacting biodiversity, ecosystems, and ultimately, human well-being. At the same time, in a changing climate, some endangered species rely on human intervention, through measures such as ex-situ conservation—preserving species outside their natural habitats—to survive.

 

In Donna Haraway's essay The Camille Stories: Children of Compost, one can sense the question of which species you would be willing to give your life to help survive. Haraway provokes by asking if that's really the right way to approach the problem - by forcing us to select certain species over others. In light of this question, Nature Is Out of Control is a reflection on the difficult balancing act between preserving diversity and controlling nature's boundaries, i.e. our attempts to decide what are desirable and undesirable species, and the consequences these decisions have in an ecosystem.

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The work, or parts of the work, has been exhibited at Galleri Format (Malmö), GIBCA Extended/Gallery Rotor2 (Gothenburg), Gallery Gasell (Halmstad), Studio Pilot (Gothenburg) and Gallery 54 (Gothenburg).