Emma Lofstrom

Residency Programme: June 2016

The first impact for Emma when coming to Blanca was the strong presence of the landscape and the human marks along history.
Crowned both peaks of the mountain behind Centro Negra by the sculpture of a virgin and a moorish castle, one needs to reflect on the human impulse to colonize the landscape, a constant attempt to leave a trace that can transience human existence.
The pace of a mountain – misread as timeless, show us the insignificance of human life despite our impact in the landscape and our constant acceleration.
In such context, Löfström feels the need not only to portrait the landscape but to draw in it, to leave subtle marks that can make small shifts in the perception.
By capturing the rhizomatic patterns, the irregular structures, the textures with her drawings as well as intervening directly on the rock, Emma is searching for a dialog between natural processes and human impositions. Her work displays constant paradoxes such as containing the mountain from falling in pieces, or holding a bunch of stones together with fragile nets made out of colorful papers emphasizes the recurrent attempt of human to control nature.
This works are experiments, essays to develop deeper in her next residency period.