Fang - Freya Brooke Verona Copeland
€22.00
First edition of 150 copies
108 pages
14.5 x 21cm
October 2025
Fang is a personal visual exploration of the power of place in the rousing of trauma, stemming from the real experience of being trapped in Catarroja, Valencia, during the devastating DANA floods of October 29, 2024. Surrounded by deep, violent-moving waters on a small mound in a field, without any sign of help, the artist mentally mapped out countless possible escape routes—each ultimately impossible to take. In the following months, while navigating the altered streets of her town to mudlark for supplies, the artist was forced to confront flashbulb memories; the remnants of both the disaster and what had become a futile imagined path to safety. Fang examines the interplay between trauma, memory, and reconstruction, using image-making as a way to see and process anew. Fang does not seek to document the flood itself, but rather the psychological and emotional terrain left in its wake. It is an exercise in reclaiming the act of looking—an attempt to reconcile what was imagined with what remains and to accentuate the lack of support for hundreds of thousands of Valencian residents who on that day and in the months to follow were left without warning, help or salvation.
Edited by Replika Publishing and Handshake
Graphic design by Handshake
Languages: Valencian, Spanish and English