STATEMENT
My practice approaches nature as a living archive
I am an artist working at the intersection of analytical thinking and material process. I explore the relationship between time, nature and memory.
I am interested in how ecological and climatic systems leave traces, marks that can be read and interpreted.
Through processes such as cyanotype, and the use of organic materials, I explore how nature keeps memory, how time and climate become inscribed into matter.
My work invites slow observation: to read what is written in matter,
and to recognize that we are part of the same strata.
BIO
IONA (Rocío Arteaga, b. 1975, Bogotá) is a Colombian artist based between Sweden and Spain.
She holds a PhD in Economics and received formal training in visual arts at Önnestads Konstskola. Her interdisciplinary background informs a practice grounded in systems thinking, material processes, and long-term observation.
Her work has been exhibited in Sweden and Spain, and she is a member of the Swedish Artists’ Association (Svenska Konstnärsförbundet).
