STATEMENT
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My work is rooted in a central belief: the economy and nature are not separate systems, but interdependent networks. Through biophilia —the innate affinity we feel towards other living beings— I explore how the health of ecosystems is inseparable from human well-being and, therefore, from economic stability.
Through installations and data art pieces, I translate economic and environmental data into visual forms that reveal this hidden relationship: growth rings that record droughts and drops in agricultural GDP, networks that merge food chains with value chains, and organic patterns that make visible what economic accounting fails to capture.
My goal is to create an aesthetic and scientific narrative that invites us to rethink the economy as a living part of the biosphere, rather than as an external system.
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BIO
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IONA (Rocío Arteaga, b. 1975, Bogotá) is a multidisciplinary artist based in Skåne, Sweden, and Oviedo, Spain. With a PhD in Economics and formal training in arts, she bridges science and art to explore the interdependence between nature and socio-economic systems.
Her data art transforms agricultural GDP, dendrochronological records, and climate data into sculptural forms that make visible how the economy and the biosphere shape each other.
She is a member of the Svenska Konstnärsförbundet (Swedish Artists’ Association).​​
