Post Tourism

A visual study of landscapes reshaped by natural disaster.

In Post Tourism, I explore places once constructed for leisure — tourist destinations, now transformed by wildfires, floods, and earthquakes. Stripped of their original purpose, these spaces hover in a strange, fragile limbo between ruin and reinvention. They no longer belong to humans, yet they are not fully reclaimed by nature either. What remains is a stark beauty: scorched forests, blackened soil, broken infrastructures rendered silent and inert.

Through large-format photography and sculptural installations, I trace the quiet violence of these transitions. Burned trees become sculptural objects, landscapes turn into monuments of absence. The work observes not only physical transformation but also emotional dissonance: the pull between attraction and discomfort, the human tendency to search for meaning in destruction, and the unsettling way these places resist closure.

Post Tourism lingers in these unresolved spaces — where the future is uncertain, and the familiar has been reshaped beyond recognition.

Photo of an art gallery seen through a large window with a glass door. Inside the gallery, several pieces of framed landscape photographs are hung on white walls. In the foreground outside, there are dark, charred tree trunks displayed as part of an art installation, with some on a sandy surface. The gallery sign on the window reads "LA NOMBREUSE" and includes additional information about the exhibition and artist.

Post Tourism Exhibition view at LaNombreuse Gallery in Brussels. January 2025