Imaginary Ecologies

Imaginary Ecologies unfolds from encounters with stones, fungi, woods, and other materials that inhabit forests and mountains in dense and shifting relations. These presences often remain at the margins of human perception, yet they share the same ontological ground as ourselves.

In the context of ecological crisis, it becomes evident that our established modes of perceiving the environment are insufficient. What is needed are other imaginaries – perspectives that unsettle familiar oppositions such as life and non-life, self and other, art and nature. In this space, clarity gives way to permeability: the real approaches the surreal, the ordinary reveals unforeseen vitality.

Through a practice that stays close to objects and materials, photography becomes more than representation. It turns into a tool of inquiry, a medium that makes perceptible what otherwise escapes attention. In this sense, the photographic image functions as a tool of cognition: it not only shows but allows us to think with and through the more than human. The images in Imaginary Ecologies invite us to sense ecological entanglements not as abstract ideas, but as lived correspondences in a network of countless beings, existing simultaneously and in mutual interdependence.