STATEMENT
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​My practice investigates nature as a stratified archive.
Trained both as an economist (PhD) and as a visual artist, I work at the intersection of analytical thinking and material process. I am interested in how systems — ecological, climatic, atmospheric — leave traces that can be read, layered and interpreted.
Through cyanotype, cork pyrography, encaustic and gold leaf, I construct surfaces where growth rings, skies, and organic forms appear suspended between presence and fossil. These forms do not illustrate nature; they function as records. As strata.
Across series such as The Tree Rings Tell, Remember the Blue Sky and The Skin of Air, I explore how time, drought, pressure and light become inscribed into matter itself. Layers accumulate. Surfaces absorb. Materials remember.
Climate change is not approached as image, but as condition — embedded in texture, erosion and repetition.
My work invites slow observation.
To read what is written in matter.
To recognize that we are part of the same strata.
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BIO
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​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).
