Transcendence

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? Should we really wait for technology to be our saviour? Or should we instead opt for an enchanted sobriety? Will we be able to transcend our domination system to achieve a form of coexistence with the living world that surrounds us?

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. Aiming to go beyond anxiogenic environmental disasters aestheticisation, this project proposes to slow down to instead reflect on existing solutions. Inspired from the motto « We are nature defending itself », this visual research observes the emergence of a resilience culture made up of alternative way of living, low-tech, committed community, nature protection initiatives, as well as dubious techno-solutionist innovations.

Through diverse visual experimentations and scenographic displays, as a lightbox and one Anthotype, Cinzia Romanin immerses us into alternative realities to question the world we want to live in.

Transcendence