Ground

The project Ground is an exploration of landscapes of the Baltic States visited during three trips to Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia in early spring of 2015 and 2016.
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"This form of mediation between the territory, its scars, its drains, the waste sites, side-effects and residues of production, and the almost direct transportation of its substances into a new, though reflective production for yet another infrastructural project—that of cultural understanding and collaboration of sites—is to be taken both metaphorically and literally.
We are looking at matter, at the end of a chain of processes, waste materials, remnants of faster, but still moving industrial processes that have turned matter into energy, data and dust.
Chemical leaks, residues of industrial processes, colored earth turned over and carved out are the remains of social, economic and chemical events and processes that are historically past, but whose afterlife represents the burden and duty of care for this new Baltic Sea region."

"The Baltic Atlas Project", Ines Weizman, The Baltic Atlas, page 224, Sternberg Press, 2016