All things laid dormant

All things laid dormant questions our relationship to more-than-human life in times of extinction. Relying on the ambiguous qualities of the photographic medium that simultaneously hinders and facilitates interactions with the lived environment, Casagrande invites the viewers into a world suspended between presence and absence, proximity and distance, life and death, carving a space for ecological grief within a world in ruins. The body of work brings together photographs, texts and sculptures that speak not only of the loss of our fellow earth-roamers, but also of photography’s own role in environmental ruination, particularly through the mining of silver for the analogue photographic industry. Reclaiming silver from used darkroom fixer and using it to coat handmade sculptures, Casagrande’s ceramic creatures emerge from the spoils of photographic waste.