Márcia Correia

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Illustration





Red Velvet




2020
Serra da Freita, Aveiro, Portugal Red Velvet came into being during the COVID-19 pandemic, when the remote mountains of Serra da Freita became my way out of the city’s enclosure. In that isolation, the landscape offered more than escape; it became a stage on which reality and fiction could fold into one another.

In this series, I set out to reframe the familiar by pushing its visual language to an extreme. The hyper-saturated colours tip the landscape into something artificial, almost hostile. These heightened tones echo my own response to the friction between the natural world and human interference: what is left behind when we mine, exploit and package nature for our own ends.

Red Velvet is not simply a portrait of a place, but an exploration of how we manipulate and distort it through our ways of seeing and acting. It is a constructed fiction grounded in a real terrain, inviting viewers to confront the consequences of our growing distance from the very environments we claim as home.
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Digital Photography