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  • Laura Colmenares Guerra
R€¥€R$€ is a 30 minute virtual reality piece that deepens into the complex situation of Amazonia.

More than half of the Amazon region, 66% of it, is subject to permanent pressure due to human extractive practices such as oil and mineral exploitation, road infrastructure development, ranching, agricultural activity and hydroelectric plants. Deforestation, burning, and loss of carbon stocks are proof of the large-scale transformations taking place in Amazonia.

The ancestral Indigenous Peoples’ and the biome of the Rainforest are endangered by the rapid deforestation and exploitation of natural resources. The extractivist practices operating in the region have caused irreparable damage to these vital ecosystems, threatening the survival of countless species of plants and animals. The loss of these valuable resources impacts the local communities who rely on them for their livelihoods and has far-reaching global consequences. It is imperative that we take action to protect and preserve the Rainforest and its inhabitants before it’s too late.

R€¥€R$€ underlines the tensions present in the territory, where human, cultural and environmental aspects rub with power, economics and multinational interests in a context of climate stress in which importance of preserving this unique ecosystem is vital for the survival of the current life on Earth.

 

Created by

Laura Colmenares Guerra

Laura Colmenares Guerra is a Colombian artist based in Brussels. Her main work axes are installation, sculpture & digital narratives in the field of 3D (animation, Virtual Reality and ceramics 3D printing).

She has a transversal research-based practice. Her work explores the impairment between contemporary Western societies and living ecosystems, the environment and living beings. This questioning drives her to conceive settings that relate to the politics of landscape and the notions of territory. She explores the constructions of the concepts of nature and language as a foundation medium for reality.

https://ulara.org/

Credits

Conception, direction, production: Laura Colmenares Guerra
Unreal developer: François Zajéga
Unreal environment & lighting: Samson Michel
Animation & compositing: Laura Colmenares Guerra
CG & VFX supervisor: Laura Colmenares Guerra
Sound design & music composition: Loup Mormont
Amazon sound field recordings: Jana Irmert
Studio recordings: Antonin Simon
English VO: Emma Dingwall
French VO: Sarah Hebborn
Dutch VO: Nina Mallants
Portuguese VO: Fernanda Stefanski
Spanish VO: Laura Colmenares Guerra
Text editor: Camilla Colombo
Text corrections and translations: Anne Vereecken / Elly Mc Donald / Joachim Devillé / Santiago Colmenares Guerra
Co-Production: OHME