Part of Alserkal Art Week: UPROOTED
Ryan Koopmans & Alice Wexell The artistic duo is known for transforming abandoned architecture into lush, surreal dreamscapes through photography and digital media. Their works breathe new life into forgotten spaces, blurring the boundary between ruin and rebirth. The Wild Within is a series of lens-based artworks by Ryan Koopmans and Alice Wexell that breathe new life into historic and often abandoned buildings by photographing and transforming them into imaginative overgrown realms. Traveling globally to document architectural ruins, the artists capture and enhance these spaces with digitally sculpted foliage and motion, creating a surreal blend of past and future, nature and manmade. The artwork, which can be presented as both still images and looping animations, explores themes of growth, decay, and the passage of time.