Leanne Wiggers

Susurrus is a photography book inspired by the sounds and atmosphere of the jungle, exploring the delicate relationship between wildlife, environment, and human presence. Through analogue techniques and natural materials, it captures the jungle’s rhythms, highlighting its fragility, beauty, and the importance of conservation in the face of environmental change.

The ‘Artificial Light’ series contrasts sunlight and artificial light to explore connections between humanity and nature. Using Anthotypes made from spinach extract, the images depict utility poles and streetlights, emphasizing our reliance on electricity for light and essential needs. This prompts reflection on resource consumption and environmental impact, encouraging deeper contemplation of our relationship with the environment.

The ‘Whispers of the Wind’ Series is a continuous work whereby the artist manually has sewn leaves one by one onto paper or canvas creating a three-dimensional work. These leaves are then connected to tiny motors to create movement simulating wind onto the leaves, creating an artificial sense of life in the leaves. It explores the feeling of wind through sense of time and movement.

The ‘Spring’ Series focuses on Cherry Blossoms, capturing their delicate beauty amid the night’s backdrop. Each frame uses streetlight glow to illuminate the blossoms, creating a layered composition that evokes a sense of stillness and timelessness. Through this work, viewers are invited to contemplate the interplay of light and life, using Cherry Blossoms as a metaphor for vitality and the fleeting nature of existence.

The Series ‘Rhythms of Landscapes’ explores the human relationship with landscapes and how we alter and shape them. Reflecting the landscape upon itself reveals a new landscape, showing an altered layer of deep time. The circular shape creates a sense of time and space, playing with comparisons of clocks and lenses.

Solitude within the River Bed’ captures the dried-out river landscape near Velez-Blanco, Spain. The vast, withered landscape bears witness to years of erosion and extreme heat, evoking a sense of history and loneliness amidst the deafening silence.

Natural Frames uses repetition to form a perspective on the secluded and open space. This is done through a performance whereby I rearrange flower petals, fallen leaves or any other decay on the floor by hand into a present border or frame on the street, often a stone tile. This refers to the control of humans over the nature by the use of borders around the natural material and arranging it in very specific forms. However, the weather causes the temporality of the work, creating an intimate moment in time while also suggesting the impossibility of controlling nature to the humans need.

The Breathing Project is a long-term research exploring the concept of breathing and its relation to panic and anxiety, inspired by the artist’s experience with asthma. The project involves creating multiple unique artworks, projecting human life onto non-human object. This is an installation with a breathing pillow.

The Breathing Project is a long-term research exploring the concept of breathing and its relation to panic and anxiety, inspired by the artist’s experience with asthma. The project involves creating multiple unique artworks, projecting human life onto non-human object. This is an performance which writing breath in, breath out on the walls of the exhibiting space.

Animate/Inanimate’ explores the connection between indoor and outdoor spaces, nature, and human-made objects by cultivating chia seeds on a snake-like sculpture within a gallery. The project showcases the life cycle of the plants and creates a unique ecosystem, merging natural elements and human artifice to explore diverse forms of life.