The Dam -Altered ground

The Dam examines a landscape reshaped through large-scale human intervention.
Rather than approaching the dam as a functional structure, the project considers it as an inscription of power onto terrain — where geological time, engineering, and material force intersect.

The images depict a territory altered through excavation, containment, and redirection.
Water is controlled, mountains are cut open, and the land is reorganized according to systems of extraction and management.

Human presence is largely absent from the frame, yet remains pervasive.
It appears through scale, machinery, and imposed geometry, revealing an environment suspended between natural processes and engineered order.

The project focuses not on construction, but on the aftermath of intervention — a landscape neither fully natural nor fully resolved.

The Dam addresses territory as a surface subjected to force, where control becomes visible through transformation, and permanence is negotiated through matter.

This series was presented as solo exhibition at Exposium gallery in June 2011 in collaboration with WWF.