INGRID WEYLAND - EXPOSURE INTERNATIONAL OPEN CALL

I have traveled from southern Argentina to the ice of Greenland.

I have always been attracted to solitary and silent settings, bonding to a point where these spaces become a source of containment and protection, a private sanctuary.

It is perhaps because of this feeling that, back home, I devised a strategy to try to return the gesture to nature. As a tribute, and possible farewell, to my emotional refuge, which has experienced serious environmental degradation, and through the materiality of the printed image, I intend to highlight the violent damage suffered by the places I photograph, by manipulating and distorting my own personal landscapes. In these landscapes that at first glance would seem pristine and immaculate, we then notice their decline, their deterioration; this becomes a wake-up call, a way of questioning our relationship with the natural world. This has evidently become an urgent matter.

My intention is to keep working towards trying to effect change.

It is said that a wrinkled piece of paper can never regain its original shape; the trace persists. In the same way, nature which is disrespectfully invaded is forever broken, and many times unrecoverable.

This is an ongoing series.

BIOGRAPHY

Ingrid Weyland was born in Buenos Aires. Being part of a family of sculptors and architects, she grew up among colored pencils, art papers, blueprints, inks, and clay. She could spend hours around these materials, and from them arises her passion for form, image and design. She studied Graphic Design at the University of Buenos Aires, and worked on her own study for several years.

Some years later she decided to dedicate herself to studying Photography, beginning with Angela Copello, then participating in workshops with Raquel Bigio, Fabiana Barreda, Inés Miguens, and Diego Ortiz Mugica, clinics with Julieta Escardó and Ana Sanchez Zinny, digital photography with Juan Brath, “Proyecto Imaginario” coordinated by Martín Estol and María Elena Mendez, and “Lab of Images” with Verónica Fieiras, among others.

Her work has been exhibited in cultural institutions in Argentina, Arte Espacio 2016, BAphoto International Fair 2019 and 2020, and Photo London 2020.