“It is said that a crumpled piece of paper can never regain its original shape; the trace persists. In the same way, nature, which is disrespectfully invaded, is forever broken, and in many cases, unrecoverable.” In Topographies of Fragility, Ingrid Weyland (b. 1969) manipulates, alters and enacts “violent gestures” on the land, twisting and contorting images until the depicted landscapes become something altogether different. Weyland’s photography taps into the age of Anthropocentrism – the role of the human hand physically and dramatically shaping ecosystems from the inside out. The collages, building on the parameters of “expanded photography”, include original images from Argentina, Greenland and Iceland. The final compositions explore various layers of potential and possibility – the remnants of untouched land- scapes still visible underneath the central crumple zones.

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Image Credits:
1. Ingrid Weyland, Topographies of Fragility VI. (Iceland, 2020) Collage, Digital Photography. Archival Pigment Print.
2. Ingrid Weyland, Topographies of Fragility VIII. (Greenland, 2020). Collage, Digital Photography. Archival Pigment Print.
3. Ingrid Weyland, Topographies of Fragility VII (Catamarca, Argentina, 2020). Collage, Digital Photography. Archival Pigment Print.
4. Ingrid Weyland, Topographies of Fragility IV (Catamarca, Argentina, 2019). Collage, Digital Photography. Archival Pigment Print.
5. Ingrid Weyland, Topographies of Fragility XXI. (Greenland, 2020). Collage, Digital Photography. Archival Pigment Print.
6. Ingrid Weyland, Topographies of Fragility II. (Iceland, 2019). Collage, Digital Photography. Archival Pigment Print.