CRITICAL LANDSCAPES//:FEAR//:LOVE

In Critical Landscapes encounters happen for caring, advocacy and the ability to dream the future: our need and effort to "inhabit" the landscapes and have our voices heard in shaping life within them

In CRITICAL LANDSCAPES I raise questions about our approach and encounter with the landscape we inhabit as a result of our perception, the physical bodies, the movements and notions that perform it.

Exploring how attachment to place is experienced and expressed, rooted in my own memories, lived experiences and in collective heritage, I went to the mountain region of Agrafa.

Embodied in the great questions of our time about nature, resources, power structures, participation and community, values and meaning, I finally encountered the most tender expressions of ‘fear’ and ‘love’.

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Today's reality has thrown us into a chaotic mix of basic needs, social interactions and information flow, leaving no room to give space to the emotions associated with what we experience.

Physically and mentally exhausted, we increasingly understand that we are trapped in a system subject to different rules, that of accumulating power, using in various ways material, physical, mental and spiritual violence and ruthlessly exploiting what is needed, leaving in its wake destroyed places and extinct species and meanings.

"How to cope with it all" was written in every look, movement or proposition, and between the lines I found the most tender expressions of this anguish, always feeling included and embraced by relationships with the living.

This was the point where the sense of discomfort faded.

In CRITICAL LANDSCAPES these unexpected encounters happen, creating possibilities and space where love can "happen" as a catalyst for caring, advocacy and the ability to dream the future. It all points to our deep need and effort to "inhabit" the landscapes and have our voices heard in shaping life within them.