This project aims to uncover traces of human presence -or absence- on rural settings and to illustrate the ways in which the built can coexist with the natural. Abandoned structures and objects seem to be out-of-place when found on a rural context, representing what has been in a fragment of time and what there is no more. Human acts and rural rituals, possibly unknown to the observer, are portrayed as unintentional artistic installations inscribed in the landscape. Those places and settings function as objets trouvés, intangible for the curious eye, yet suggestive of purpose and meaning. Often the settings are seemingly static, like archeological pieces of a past life taken over by nature. Nevertheless, this silence contains an element of imminence, as if something is about to re-animate the rural landscape.
Dafni Riga 