The title of the exhibition, Migration in the Anthropocene, alludes to the fact that ecosystems are on the run from a human vision for the world. It refers to the movements that take place when the earth warms up, which also changes our identity. The title aims to give all planetary constituents an intrinsic value.
The Anthropocene can be translated as the human age after the Greek anthropos, for “human,” and “cene,” meaning “new”. The Anthropocene is a proposed geological epoch in which human-kind is the primary cause of permanent planetary change. It would thereby replace the Holocene, which we have been living in since it began 11,700 years ago after the last major ice age.
We humans displace and change the constituents of our earth like no other being. With our inventions we transform the natural world into an artificial world controlled by mankind. We are transforming the earth's biomass into human mass.
The title of the exhibition, Migration in the Anthropocene, alludes to the fact that ecosystems are on the run from a human vision for the world. It refers to the movements that take place when the earth warms up, which also changes our identity. The title aims to give all planetary constituents an intrinsic value.
We often demand a motivation for why something should exist, what we should have a plant or an animal for, how they should serve us. A raison d'être that strikes back at our own well-being. So what is our answer, if all the plants, animals, lakes, seas, mountains, glaciers, air and atmosphere of the world should ask us - What is your reason for being?
Vegan Flava is a street artist and refers to his art as visual activism and action painting. He is based in Stockholm and is internationally known for his socially reflective art with motifs such as skeletons, skulls, animals, roots and trees. Art is often created in an interaction with a particular place and in dialogue with the environment.
“I peeled off all layers of identity until only the skeleton was left. In my art, skeleton and skull become a symbol of something in common ... it is a way for me to paint us all at once. Just as the human body has limitations to what it can handle, so does the earth. If the natural phenomena of the seasons did not exist, I would dream that they existed. My art is a tribute to nature, human potential, wildlife and the four seasons, but is also an uncomfortable critique of our culture, our way of life.”
