15/03/2019
exhibition opening

Double opening: Human-Free Earth and Forensic Architecture Centre for Contemporary Nature

as parts of the project Plasticity of the Planet

Ujazdowski Castle Centre for Contemporary Art invite to the opening of two exhibitions Human-Free Earth and Forensic Architecture Centre for Contemporary Nature as part of the project Plasticity of the Planet.

Human activity has contributed to irrevocable damage to the natural environment. The project Plasticity of the Planet presented in Ujazdowski Castle Centre for Contemporary Art sets out to confront this destruction. It comprises two simultaneous exhibitions: Human-Free Earth and Center for Contemporary Nature by the investigative team Forensic Architecture. The project also includes issue 10 of the online magazine Obieg, entitled Becoming the Earth, a cinematic thread on the Anthropocene and a rich programme of events. 

The point of departure for each of these projects is the realisation that nature has ceased to be a stable, neutral backdrop for human activity. This makes it imperative to face the resultant paradox: on the one hand, nature appears to be defenceless matter, totally subjugated to exploitation and devastation, yet on the other, it manifests as an elemental force capable of the reciprocation of the violation we have wreaked upon it with magnified force. Destructive plasticity a concept proposed by the French philosopher Catherine Malabou makes it possible to understand the paradox and face the inevitable without succumbing to negativity or catastrophism.

Institution financed by The Ministry of Culture and National Heritage
Support of "Human-Free Earth" exhibition
Partner of Forensic Architecture "Centre for Contemporary Nature" exhibition
Media partners
  • 19:00
    • Opening
  • 21:00
  • Opening is free of charge.
15/03/2019
19:00