Canine

Fang is a personal visual exploration of the power of space in the conception of trauma, born from the artist's experience of being trapped in Catarroja, Valencia, during the DANA storm on October 29, 2024. Surrounded by violent waters on a small mound in the middle of a field, with no help in sight, the artist mentally traced countless escape routes, all of them impossible.

In the following months, while rummaging through the altered streets of her town in search of supplies, she was confronted with vivid memories: the remnants of both the disaster and what had become an imagined, useless path to salvation.

Fang examines the interrelationship between trauma, memory, and reconstruction, using image-making as a way to re-examine and re-process. It does not seek to document the flood itself, but rather the psychological and emotional terrain it left behind: an attempt to reconcile the imagined with what remains and to highlight the lack of support for the hundreds of thousands of Valencians who, on that day and in the subsequent months, were left without warning, help, or salvation.