Chloé Milos Azzopardi - Écosystèmes #17

"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.

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.

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.