Simply Nature, Missing Fire - Bern
This
exhibition unfolds a story of four distinct ethical behaviour cases
concerning non-humans in the given outdoor environments. Practicing acts
of minimalistic care in the urban environment, going outside the
cities, the artists work with their own tools, motifs and lenses. The
resulting works are connected with the past, be it the past of places,
of actual materials or the past of the art history suggested by the very
methods of the artists. Which nature do their works show us? What kind
of nature do they refer to? The images we see connect to the regions of
our psyche that become knowable with the help of images of mountains,
lawns, ponds, forests – in a word, through nature. But what is the
nature of the images themselves, which is rather different from the
nature of the materials with which they have been created? Perhaps, we
might find it helpful to notice the fire of human progress, which warms
and deserts everything in its all-consuming path, asking us not to value
gardens over deserts, or their hybrids over each individually, but
rather consider them in their own right.