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Reinvienting Epecuén, 2022. Digital and film photo series. Epecuén, Argentina.
In 2018, I participated in the Epecuén Residency in Argentina, an immersive program where artists are invited to stay and work in the abandoned town of Epecuén. Once an exclusive summer destination by Lake Epecuén, the town was originally constructed to cater to Argentina’s cattle industry. However, in the early 1980s, torrential rainfall in the surrounding hills caused the lake to swell, breaching a dam built to contain it and flooding the resort for nearly a quarter of a century. The residency project, Reinventing Epecuén, seeks to recontextualize this site of ruins, highlighting the debris that now forms a unique landscape—an interplay of shapes, colors, and the relationship between architecture and the horizon. The narrative emerges from observing the immobile as an expression of beauty, giving voice to the impact of human intervention in nature and the long-lasting consequences of those actions.