SENSING SHELTER

Highlighting the need for more time and dedication to site and place before designing and building, this ongoing work formalizes such an approach through personal performances in the wild, where a slow and observant gaze becomes crucial. Traversing remote territories without a tent or sleeping bag, forces the senses to “read” the landscape more acutely, to slow down, in search for a night shelter from cold, sun, rain and wind. In place of “designing” a shelter, the work explores “finding” a shelter. As a parallel discourse, it also hopes to convey the fragility of desolate environments, in constant threat from the urbanization of the wild.

A selection of self-portraits from solo climbs and journeys in Greenland, Atacama, Jotunheimen and the Pyrenees.