Let’s make 2024 the year we begin to live more in balance with nature. With that in mind, we’re looking to the work of Argentinian artist Alexandra Kehayoglou, whose vast, hand-tufted textile works – made from surplus materials – depict natural landscapes that are under threat or reimagine areas that have been desecrated by humans, giving them new life.

North of Buenos Aires is a river called Raggio creek, whose biodiversity has been stripped and topography transfigured. In her giant carpet No Longer Creek, she restores it to its pre-human state, rewilding its banks and watery depths. When she exhibits the work – first shown at Design Miami/Basel in 2016 – she invites visitors to step onto the carpet and lie down on the soft wool, experiencing an environment in which their activities leave no trace. It’s something to strive for in the coming year.

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