For over twenty years, Swiss artist and author Ursula Biemann has been closely intertwining in her video essays contemporary ecological challenges, the extraction and unequal distribution of the Earth’s resources and migratory flows as a consequence of the pressure exerted on the environment and all living beings.
More than ever before, current events highlight the relevance of her complex vision, intertwining these social and environmental issues, this voracity in the exploitation of resources and the irreversible transformations of soils and entire ecosystems. For the first time in France, this exhibition brings together a series of videos by the artist with a selection focusing on her environmental explorations.
Far from yielding to the prevailing catastrophism, Ursula Biemann thus invites us to reconnect with our original belonging to the natural order and to hear the voices of peoples who live in rich and respectful interactions with non-human beings.
Digital content :
- Virtual tour of the exhibitions at MAMAC: find the exhibition Ursula Biemann, Savoirs indigènes_Fictions cosmologiques from the 10th minute.
A proposition by MAMAC – Galerie Contemporaine in collaboration with les Amis du MAMAC and the Centre Culturel Suisse.
Curated by Hélène Guenin.
