Ecotopia

Ecotopia is an installation that focuses on our understanding of "nature" as "the other" but also as something within us. The installation creates a paradox: artificial, human-made space and natural space independent of humans are both separated from and merge into one another. As when looking at the installation, we find ourselves outside of nature without ever really being able to leave it; we are part of the world from which we have sprung.

Ecotopia thus condenses something that is inherent in every representation of nature: only alienation from nature enables an art that makes nature the object of its representation. Like the science of nature, the art of nature is in a position to oppose the strangeness of nature, but this power over nature is only available at the price of alienation from it. Our view of ‘nature’ irreversibly presupposes an immanent contradiction.