Transcendence

2022 - 2024

While since the dawn of time humans have always relied on divine fate, science has recently made us realise how much our choices are defining our future world. Faced with the dilemma of losing our immediate comfort or our long-lasting well-being provided by our ecosystems, we could wonder : Which path will we choose? How can we improve our resilience? Should we wait for technology to be our saviour? Or should we instead opt for degrowth? And, more precisely, how can we transcend our anthropocentric position based on the idea of the domination of one species, gender, social class or ethnic group over another to achieve a form of coexistence?

Combining personal narratives with landscape metamorphoses observations, Transcendence aims to portray a new generation lost between eco-anxiety and the desire to initiate deep changes. Going through subjects such as new ways of living, committed communities, low-tech, dubious techno-utopian innovations and nature preservation, this project aims to go beyond dramatic environmental disaster aesthetic to show desirable alternatives and questions some others. By mixing monochrome and colour photographs with some light experimentations created with her analog large format camera, Cinzia Romanin immerses us into alternative realities to question the world we want to live in.

Transcendence