Topographies of Fragility V

Ingrid Weyland’s Topographies of Fragility series emerged from the artist’s journey from the south of Argentina to Greenland’s ice sheets. These untouched, unspoiled, surreal, immense landscapes inspired Weyland to try to encapsulate their mood and beauty. On a return trip years later to these same locations, Weyland witnessed firsthand humankind’s destructive impact, prompting her to create works that simultaneously show the beauty and serenity of these locations while denoting the underlying threat of human interaction. To create the appearance of a crumpled landscape, Weyland took one of her printed photographs and crushed it to the point that it could never return to its prior state. The deformed print is then placed on top of the pristine print and rephotographed. The final product presents an analogy about the impossibility of returning once-thriving landscapes to their existence before human interference. In Topographies of Fragility V, a photograph of a rainforest and its crumpled copy appear perfectly aligned, coalescing into a single image interrupted by the folds of the fragile paper.
Ingrid Weyland (b. 1969) is a photographer born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, to a family full of artists. Inspired by her relatives, she studied Graphic Design at the University of Buenos Aires, achieving a bachelor’s degree in 1992. Weyland learned her photographic craft through multiple workshops with Raquel Bigio, Fabiana Barreda, Inés Miguens, "Proyecto Imaginario" coordinated by Martín Estol and María Elena Mendez, and "Lab of Images" with Verónica Fieiras, among others. Notably, Weyland has exhibited at Feria Arte Espacio (2016, Buenos Aires, Argentina), Photo London (2020, U.K.), Exposure Photo Festival (2021, Alberta, Canada), The Climate Museum (2021, Hong Kong, China), Ashurst Emerging Artist Prize Winner Exhibition (2021, London, U.K) and the Fresh Annual Photography Exhibition (2021, New York, U.S.A.) Weyland has also achieved multiple awards, including Decade of Change (2020), AShurst Emerging Artist Photography Prize (2021), Rhonda Wilson Award (2021), Finalist of the Lensculture Art Photography Awards (2022), and the Photolucida Critical Mass Top 50 (2022).

Ingrid Weyland

2019