Gohar Dashti
The series "Disappearing Nature”, composed of manipulated polaroid photos showing future landscapes started from a series of bucolic Polaroid photos taken during her residency at MacDowell in Peterborough, New Hampshire, she burned and peeled the landscapes, rendering them unrecognizable - almost extraterrestrial.
To Dashti, the unforeseeable results of the process “mirrors the precarious situation of our Earth: resulting in imagery that is violent, urgent, and, amid its transitions, often unexpectedly beautiful. [...]I have created an entirely new aesthetic landscape, in order to trigger a visceral awareness of the repercussions of climate change within the viewer."