The Dutch sculptor and photographer Scarlett Hooft Graafland presents her first solo show coming spring. The show presents the wide spectrum of her works made from 2004 to the present capturing unexpected and surrealist images. She travels to the world's most untouched landscapes like Madagascar, Bolivia's salt flat, and the Arctic plains of northern Canada as well as China where she has created or captured the images. 

The landscape is something she admires and at the same time something to overcome while always being the most closest neighborhood, which she most easily reveals herself to. The images, Graafland says, are as much about conservation as they are inspiration. "My response to climate change is a visual one....I still hope the human race will survive, so I try to grasp some of the grim background, but add some lightness as well" says Graafland during her interview with the New York Times. She documents the traces of great landscape and stories about people who are part of the nature, which have been already disappeared or yet to be disappeared.

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Turtle, 2013
© Scarlett Hooft Graafland 
courtesy of the artist