Chloé Milos Azzopardi - Écosystèmes
"Écosystèmes" is a futuristic fable in which identities become porous and metamorphoses possible, a research about how we can imagine new interspecies relationships in a post-capitalocene era.
The term Capitalocene refers to a geological era the Earth entered in the 19th. It designates the unprecedented environmental transformations triggered by human activity in overdeveloped countries such as global warming, thinning of the ozone layer, ocean acidification, deforestation, loss of biodiversity, air pollution, melting of the ice caps... In this work I try to project myself after this era in order to create imaginaries capable of going beyond the objectification of the living and to repair our relationship with it. I explore the relationships between human and non-human beings, trying to escape a prism of utility or servitude and seeking instead to identify the common forms that go through us.
For a long time, Western philosophy has done everything to distinguish human from animal, nature from culture to the point of thinking we were above the sphere of the living if not outside it. This way of defining ourselves by extracting humankind from the living has led to seeing nature as an available 'resource' without considering our interdependencies and common vulnerabilities.
Chloé Azzopardi held her first solo exhibition at HIDDEN Gallery in March 2022.
Écosystèmes In British Journal of Photography
Chloé Milos Azzopardi (1994) is a visual artist living on an island in the outskirts of Paris. She works on long-term projects that blend photography, performance, and installation. At the intersection of experimental and documentary photography, her images generate fictional worlds with heightened strangeness and sensoriality. Her research focuses on ecology, new technologies, and the construction of post-capitalocene imaginaries.
Chloé has been featured in The New York Times, The Wire, and the British Journal of Photography. She was awarded the "New Writings of Environmental Photography" prize at La Gacilly Festival and the Lucie Foundation’s Emerging Artist grant. Her recent exhibitions include Les Rencontres d'Arles and the Belfast Photo Festival. She was also a resident at Villa Perochon during the encounters of young international photography with Joan Fontcuberta.
About two years ago, we recorded a podcast episode with Chloé, where we discussed topics such as completing creative work, overcoming impostor syndrome, dealing with rejection, and the poetic influence of Andrei Tarkovsky.
