What Remains by Alarik Rantala
When trying to look for commonalities between species, only one factor unites them all: the inevitability of death.
Layers of being by Minchen H Stenersen
If we recognize our similarities with the living world around us, would we treat it with more empathy?
In a time where it鈥檚 easy to feel distant from nature, it became important for me to use this project as an opportunity to gain connection to the more-than human world. A search for something that unites beings of different kinds.
We accumulate marks, scars and patterns on our bodies. Skin is a canvas for time 鈥 holding stories of growth, decay and change. This cycle of transformation is a shared language among us and nature. By intuition, I began collecting images of human and tree skin, each telling a story of the passage of time.
The final artifacts are abstract, three-dimensional collages where human and non-human skin blend together, erasing the boundaries between them. I used a technique that involves printing directly onto plywood, allowing the natural wood grain to show through. I then combined these printed pieces with raw plywood, highlighting the similarities between the patterns and marks on human skin and the textures of wood.
Materials: Photography, plywood
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Gender specimen by Vladimir Elia von Arx
Species, gender, categorisations to make our world easier to deal with. During my work with understanding my own gender identity, I completely lost my grasp on what femininity and masculinity mean. What is it to feel feminine or masculine? What makes an object seem masculine or feminine?
TAMED DISSONANCE: Grasping our tumultuous nature by Marcelo Guajardo D谩vila
Humanity is inherently chaotic, where order and disorder constantly intertwine, one cannot exist without the other. Through photographic experimentation and overlapping images, I capture everyday chaos from our 鈥渘ew nature鈥, the human-made ecosystem of the city.