Fang IV
€175.00
Freya Brook Verona Copeland, 2025
17.8x24cm Silver Gelatin Print on rag paper.
Signed on reverse
Fang is a personal visual exploration of the power of place in awakening trauma. The project stems from the real experience of being trapped overnight in Catarroja, Valencia, during the devastating DANA floods of October 29, 2024. Surrounded by deep, violent-moving waters on a small mound in a field, without any sign of help, the artist mentally mapped out countless possible escape routes—each ultimately impossible to take. In the following months, as I navigated the altered streets of my town to scavenge for supplies, I was forced to confront my feelings of overwhelm In those long, dark hours the remnants of both the disaster and my imagined paths to safety. This series and photobook examine the interplay between trauma, memory, and reconstruction, using image-making as a way to see and process anew. The artist does not seek to document the flood itself, but rather the psychological and emotional terrain left in its wake. It is an exercise in reclaiming the act of looking—an attempt to reconcile what was imagined with what remains.