STATEMENT

My artistic practice is a meditative tribute to nature—a spiritual inquiry into our need to reintegrate the natural world into human consciousness.
I explore our innate biophilia: the fundamental, often forgotten bond that draws us toward other living beings and environments. This emotional resonance with nature—a longing, a reverence, a pull—guides my work.

Through conceptual installations and multimedia expressions, I seek moments of sublimity: clouds dissolving into sky, mangroves surrendering to the sea. Nature is not only a motif—it is a mirror, a portal, a presence that transforms observation into transcendence.

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BIO

Rocio Arteaga, known artistically as IONA (b. 1975, Bogotá, Colombia), is a multidisciplinary artist based in Skåne, Sweden. Her practice fuses conceptual art with ecological and philosophical inquiry, often exploring the invisible threads that connect nature, society, and abstraction.

IONA’s academic background is uniquely hybrid: she holds a PhD in Economics alongside a B.A. in Business Administration, an MSc in Finance, and formal studies in fine arts in Sweden. Her work often draws parallels between organic patterns in nature and systemic structures in the economy, exploring isomorphies as poetic and conceptual tools.

IONA is a member of the Svenska Konstnärsförbundet (Swedish Artists’ Association). 

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