Freya Brooke Verona Copeland - Fang

Handshake Books / Replika Publishing 2025

Fang is a personal visual exploration of the power of place in rousing trauma, stemming from the artist’s experience of being trapped in Catarroja, Valencia, during the DANA floods of October 29, 2024. Surrounded by violent waters on a small mound in a field with no help in sight, she mentally mapped countless escape routes—each ultimately impossible to take. In the months that followed, while mudlarking through altered streets for supplies, she confronted flashbulb memories; the remnants of both the disaster and what had become a futile imagined path to safety. Fang examines the interplay of trauma, memory, and reconstruction, using image-making as a way to see and process anew. It does not document the flood itself but rather the psychological and emotional terrain left in its wake—an attempt to reconcile what was imagined with what remains, and to expose the absence of aid for hundreds of thousands of Valencians who on that day and in the months to follow were left without warning, help or salvation.

108 pages / First edition of 150 copies / October 2025 / 14.5x21cm / Languages: Valencian, Spanish and English / Includes folded poster sleeve