“#Wall of Climate” (2020-2022)
“#Wall of Climate”
Installation, photographic collages, 2022
#prayforamazonia, #climatechange, #savetheplanet… Behind these hashtags, a new reality begins to take shape: that of climate refugees. If wars have historically driven populations into forced displacement, the Earth itself now seems to have joined the conflict.
#wallofclimate is a work of anticipation, a projection into a post-apocalyptic world. Mirial traveled as close as possible to wildfires and volcanic eruptions to photograph scorched lands and their blood-red skies. Across these still-smoking landscapes, silhouettes wander, lost, adrift, fleeing their own world.
These figures, often children playing carefree, were encountered elsewhere: on beaches, in light, in joy, in life. Through collage, Mirial brings these opposing worlds together. The images respond to one another, contaminate each other, and diverge from their original intent to construct a new narrative.
Thus, those who once ran with smiles now seem to be fleeing a land burning beneath their feet. Others, armed with buckets, no longer build sandcastles but attempt to extinguish the burning land, our planet.
