The 10% (2021 - 2025)
Since the mid-19th century, Colombia has lost 90% of its glacial area, with the remaining 10% projected to disappear within the next 30 years. The 10% is a multi-channel video installation that addresses the loss of tropical glaciers. Through this work, I use global glacier data to create an aesthetic experience that highlights the ongoing disappearance of glaciers as part of the broader environmental crisis.
In this installation, custom software processes a dataset tracking changes in glaciers worldwide, alongside photographs of Colombian glaciers taken during personal expeditions to high mountain ecosystems. The software continuously loops through the data and images, using the dataset's values to alter the photographs, gradually erasing their brightest areas, typically the white glaciers, and disintegrating the pixels as particles in a three-dimensional space. This process progressively erases the photographic footage, rendering the images unrecognizable, mirroring the data's trend of glacial loss, and drawing an analogy between the loss and distortion of visual information and the deterioration of tropical glaciers. Differences in the photographic footage cause the images to change in varying degrees. However, reflecting the data, all tend to disappear, evoking an empty space and the loss of vital ecosystems.
The 10% is currently exhibited as part of The 19th International Architecture Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia (Biennale Architettura 2025), curated by Carlo Ratti and on view through November 23.
2025 Version
2021 Version
