The Sea That Invades the Land, Fish Conquer Our Spaces – An Upside-Down World Between Dream and Photography

Welcome Aurora in The Den! We are happy to invite you to her exhibition opening on the 8th May, 2025, at 7pm (address: C/Alonso Alvarado 7) Please find her on instagram, and get to know her work: auroraboreal._._.__

This photographic project turns the world upside down. For once, it’s not humans invading the oceans with boats, noise, and pollution. It’s the fish who emerge, claiming our landscapes with surreal, unnatural colors and a presence that feels both alien and strangely familiar.

Through the ancient technique of cyanotype, the landscapes of the Canary Islands are stripped of their physical weight and transformed into a monochromatic sea, fluid and undefined, suspended somewhere between memory and dream. These are no longer solid grounds but liquid environments where fish glide effortlessly, while we, the observers, remain on the outside, separated by an invisible barrier.

The project proposes a radical shift in perspective. What if we are no longer the ones in control? What if what we call ours begins to be inhabited, even governed, by other forms of life, quieter, freer, more instinctively in tune with the world?

This is more than a visual experiment. It is a conceptual reflection on the present moment. A world in which fish are no longer passive victims of human activity but active presences in a reimagined ecosystem. A quiet reminder that nature might outlive us and even reinvent itself without us.

Welcome to a new world, strange, silent and deeply poetic, where fish no longer swim in our oceans, they swim through us.