Elsa Casanova Sampé

This project is based on an investigation into the imaginary of “banal” conversations about the weather. Its aim is to consider the influence that meteorological representations have on our relationship with the climate crisis. From popular sayings to the doomers of today to the graphs used in TV weather forecasts, these representations not only provide a description or portrayal of our climate reality, but also act as something that guides and prescribes our understanding of and relationship with that same reality. Every crisis is influenced by the narratives that are generated around it. To represent the weather is also to create the weather, like a self-fulfilling prophecy. What we represent does not precede its representation, rather that very representation produces that which it represents.

BIO

Elsa Casanova (Barcelona, 1994) is a visual designer and researcher whose main research and production tools are image creation, object hacking and performance art. Her methodology focuses on the deconstruction of codes, images and gestures that create certain imaginaries and their respective symbologies; paying particular attention to aesthetic appropriation and the political instrumentalisation of the issues she explores. A graduate in industrial design, Elsa Casanova holds a master’s degree in GEO-Design from the Design Academy Eindhoven (2022) and a postgraduate degree in Analysis of Capitalism and Transformative Politics from the Autonomous University of Barcelona (2019). Other members of the Oblicuas collective are.

One of the recipients of the 2024 Quarterly Residencies for Projects on the Environment for visual artists at Matadero Madrid’s Centre for Artists in Residence. 

Image credit: Satellite image of Himawari. Source: NOAA.