Golden future
With the idea that western civilization would transform water into gold if it could, and would do so until the very last drop, even if it would mean the end of us, Golden Future reflects on an extractionist society, replacing natural elements such as water, air and rocks with gold. Taking some artistic liberty, in some works, the gold has been applied for purely aesthetic reasons. After all, beauty is also a symbol of hope and resistance.
Golden Future IV
France is home to many canyons—natural oases carved into the sun-baked hinterlands of the south. Once shaped and sustained by flowing water, these ancient formations are now drying up, victims of rising temperatures and vanishing rains.
This photograph, taken in 2018 in the Lubéron region, captures one such place—where the river that sculpted stone over centuries has long since receded. In its place: gold. A visual elegy, a provocation. Nature’s life force, replaced with the false glint of value. What once gave life is now commodified.
Edition: 1/1
Paper: Hahnemuhle Ultra Smooth Fine Art paper
Size: A4
Location: Lubéron, France
Golden FUTURE II
Where the Pyrénées dive into the Mediterranean Sea, the salty waves, carried by the strong Tramontane winds, crash onto the dark rocks. The birth of a Catalan Venus.
Edition: 1/1
Paper: Hahnemuhle Ultra Smooth Fine Art paper
Size: A4
Location: Seaside, Banyuls-sur-Mer, France
GOLDEN FUTURE IX
Industrial ruins stand as monuments to our hunger for extraction—proof of what humanity takes from the earth, and what it leaves behind once there’s nothing left to gain. When the resources dry up, capital moves on, abandoning these colossal husks like discarded idols.
This photograph was taken inside an abandoned gasometer near Charleroi, Belgium—once a site of industry, now a cavernous reliquary of modern ambition. The golden rings added to the ceiling echo the aureolas found in religious iconography. But here, they do not sanctify saints—they deify a new god: money.
The work reflects on how the structures we build in pursuit of profit often outgrow us, becoming larger, more enduring, and ultimately more worshipped than the people who built them. In a world where capital has replaced the divine, this image asks: what remains when the faith in industry fades?
Edition: 1/1
Paper: Hahnemuhle Ultra Smooth Fine Art paper
Size: A4
Location: Abandoned gasometer, Charleroi, Belgium
Golden FUTURE V
In this final image, the figure no longer retreats or reclines. She walks forward—emerging from a shoreline laced with gold. The seafoam at her feet glimmers with traces of contamination: beauty and danger, wealth and residue, inseparably intertwined.
This is not a portrait of surrender. It is a reckoning. The viewer is no longer detached—what was once observed is now observing. What has been extracted has not disappeared; it washes back up with the tide.
Edition: 1/1
Paper: Hahnemuhle Ultra Smooth Fine Art paper
Size: A4
Location: Seaside, Banyuls-sur-Mer, France
GOLDEN FUTURE X
Our ancient forests are vanishing. In much of Western Europe, centuries-old trees are rare, and untouched groves rarer still. This photograph was taken in one of France’s older woodlands, where the trees bend and twist like bodies remembering another time.
Behind the forest: a golden sky. Not the glow of dawn, but the shimmer of a so-called ‘Golden Future’—an ironic light that signals what we stand to lose in the name of progress. The human figure, nestled in the crook of a tree, is part of the forest, part of the warning.
Edition: 1/1
Paper: Hahnemuhle Ultra Smooth Fine Art paper
Size: A4
Location: Bibracte, France
GOLDEN FUTURE VII
Where there once was water, there is now gold. In this image, the sea—a symbol of endlessness, life, and collective sustenance—has been replaced by a flat, golden surface. In the physical print, this surface reflects light as the ocean would, seducing the eye while masking the absence it represents.
This work questions what it means to trade the irreplaceable for the quantifiable. The sea becomes wealth, but for whom? A lone figure stands under a darkened sky—a quiet witness to a world where nature has been commodified and lost, its brilliance assigned to the few, its emptiness left to the rest.
Edition: 1/1
Paper: Hahnemuhle Ultra Smooth Fine Art paper
Size: A4
Location: Seaside, Banyuls-sur-Mer, France
GOLDEN FUTURE XI
In this work, the gold that was once torn from the earth is returned—brought back from nature to civilization and embedded within the stone of the Pont Neuf. A single gilded fracture replaces part of the bridge’s arch, symbolizing how our built world rests upon the invisible spoils of extraction.
The Pont Neuf, one of Paris’s oldest and most iconic structures, becomes a quiet monument to the cycle of taking and returning, of illusion and permanence. The body leans against this seam—exposed, reaching—caught between the glory of civilization and the weight of its unseen cost.
Edition: 1/1
Paper: Hahnemuhle Ultra Smooth Fine Art paper
Size: A2
Location: Pont Neuf, Paris, France
Golden Future XII
Humanity is at the mercy of the skies. When we exchange the true value of nature for the fiction of monetary wealth, we do more than distort meaning—we surrender to a fragile, dangerous illusion.
In this image, the sky has been transformed into gold—no longer a source of light or breath, but a heavy, glimmering weight. It evokes the dense, suffocating air of heatwaves, now more frequent and violent. What once offered life now threatens it. The atmosphere itself becomes a gilded cage.
Edition: 1/1
Paper: Hahnemuhle Ultra Smooth Fine Art paper
Size: A2
Location: Seaside, Port Vendres, France