New nature

Neigbourhood report, group exhibition, Sankt Pölten, 2025

Everything in the world keeps repeating itself over and over again, wars, pandemics, architectural styles, life and death. Some of us create our own cycles that we just don’t like to get out of, we find a rhythm of life, a stereotype that we stick to and we constantly revolve within it. We get up in the morning, go to work, after work we open a beer, put the children to sleep, turn on a series and go to bed. After twenty years, we can perhaps afford a mortgage, we pay it off and then we die and everything starts again somewhere else all over again and over again, just a little differently, anew. It’s hard to get out of these cycles, it’s so natural, normal. The world is changing, people are still circulating, instead of water lilies there are LED strips, plastic tubes have replaced vines, it’s our world, man has created it. It’s a new nature, what man has created is natural to him, natural. The lights flash rapidly, plastics peek out of the asphalt like worms from the dirt. How do we get out of the circulations? Can we break free from them? Each of us can get out, just materialize our courage and step out of the crowd. Those who step out will move the world a little further, towards the journey to Mars, nuclear catastrophe, a new nature.