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 ? Even though the production of ‘green energy’ encourages the extraction of rare earth metals and deforestation, can we still believe that technology will save us ? Or should we instead opt for an enchanted sobriety ? What if the end of the world we fear so much actually corresponds only to the end of the world as we have known it, the Anthropocene ? Could a new world succeed to transcend our domination system ?

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 visual research proposes to investigate on the emergence of a resilience culture made up of alternative ways of living, nature protection initiatives, low-tech as well as dubious techno-solutionist innovations. 

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