Contemporary ecological crises are often evoked without truly questioning their deep origins. They stem from a crisis of human societies and, even more so, from a crisis of sensitivity. The sentimental and perceptual impoverishment, characteristic of modernity, weakens the links between humans and nature.
This crisis of living relationships is played out on the socio-political and existential levels. In this perspective, Wild Systopia asserts itself as a manifesto highlighting destructive dynamics such as urban eco-fragmentation, the exploitation of natural resources and overconsumption, revealing a blindness towards the non-human. The project is also inscribed in a historical depth marked by the hierarchical dualism between Nature and Culture, as well as by the legacy of Western naturalism, which legitimized the exploitation of the environment.
The assembled artists question the new conditions of our coexistence and ways of living with the living, beyond the consumerist and objectivist frameworks that assign non-humans to otherness.
From then on, didn’t humans constitute themselves as “others”? Here, the savage reconfigures domination, while dystopia refers to an impoverishment of relationships and affects. Finally, the exhibition sketches a narrative in which, having become a minority, humans are forced to reinvent forms of perception and diplomacy towards nature.