ART-PRESENTATION: Sensing Nature From Within
The natural world, from which humanity has so thoroughly distanced itself, no longer exists, at least not in the same way or to the same extent it once did. This realization is starting to dawn on an increasing number of us, including many artists, and has resulted in a growing desire to reconsider old truths and seek out new ways of living and understanding the world.
By Efi Michalarou
Photo: Moderna Museet Archive
With the exhibition project “Sensing Nature from Within” Moderna Museet Malmö wants to offer an artistic and philosophical sounding board for these existential explorations of our time. The project will combine an international art exhibition with an interdisciplinary program of lectures, discussions, and performances. Combining art and philosophy and freely inspired by new and old insights into life and matter, the project reflects aspects of the growing search beyond our exploitative culture, towards a new code of ethics. Twelve international artists and artist groups are featured in this interdisciplinary exhibition, which also includes a rich program of lectures, discussions and performances. The natural world, from which humanity has so thoroughly distanced itself, no longer exists, at least not in the same way or to the same extent it once did. This realization is starting to increasingly dawn on us, and has resulted in a growing desire to reconsider old truths and seek out new ways of living and understanding the world. In many places today, texts are being written, lectures given, and exhibitions held that in a variety of ways explore man’s complex relationship with the environment in which we live. Criticism has hardened against the logic of a culture that has led to irrevocable destruction of the planet and the extinction of species. At the same time, the interest is growing for more holistic world-views and for the fascinating exercise of rethinking our relationships within a more-than-human world. Binary divisions between nature and culture and rationality and sensibility are challenged in both exhibition and program. By contemplating on our role within the natural world, and by exploring intelligence and the emotional life both within and beyond the human sphere, the project aims at awakening our sensibilities towards the nature that still surrounds us, as well as to the nature that constitutes our own inner worlds.
Participating artists: Ursula Biemann & Paolo Tavares; Cecilia Edefalk; Elisabete Finger & Manuela Eichner; Hans Hammarskiöld; Ingela Ihrman, Anne Duk Hee Jordan; Tuija Lindström, Hanna Ljungh; Hilde Skancke Pedersen; The Otolith Group; Shimabuku and Christine Ödlund.
Info: Curator: Joa Ljungberg, Moderna Museet, Ola Billgrens plats 2–4, Malmö, Duration: 28/9/19-8/3/20, Days & Hours: Tue-Fri 11:00-18:00, Sat-Sun 11:00-17:00, www.modernamuseet.se
