Ambiente Humano, Koik Contemporary, Review by Anna Garner

The fixed perspective that turns the land into a landscape consciously and unconsciously shapes the relationship between human beings and the environment. Through views based on vision as a property system, the historical tropes used to represent land have shaped the natural as a sublime or sublime backdrop that serves to reinforce socially constructed hierarchies. Within every brilliant or romantic vista, every depiction of man standing on a divine or dangerous precipice, nature is simultaneously a form of conquest, adventurous imperialism, and a resource of capital. In Human Environment, artists explore complicated histories of place to deconstruct the supposed neutrality of nature and highlight the man-made forces that mediate and alter it.

Through video, sculpture, installation and mosaic, the selected pieces point out the socio-political dynamics of resource extraction, while criticizing the connections that man from an anthropocentric perspective has created in relation to the land, through through histories of colonialism and capitalist production. Some pieces wonder about the landscape as a framing device. This curatorship advocates a broad vision of nature, one that does not allow the viewer to avoid environmental destruction through the picturesque, but rather engages the interconnected positions between nature and humanity, and between the collapse of the anthropocentric and its renewal. .