The Landscape of Absence

The artworks on display reflect on these themes, examining the contemporary world and its trajectory. Artists have been exploring these ideas for some time, arriving at a variety of positions. Yet as the exhibition’s title suggests, they also address visions in which humans no longer inhabit our planet. Questions about the cause of our demise, our culpability, and the shape of a world without the human race allow us to perceive our lived reality in a different light. The objects and images in The Landscape of Absence reflect on the relationship between the rapidly transforming technological world, society, and ecosystems that are quickly losing their stability. In this context, all traditional dichotomies—nature versus culture, organic versus artificial—fade into hybrid forms where biological and synthetic structures seamlessly merge. Here, art functions both as a tool of imagination and as a warning, a catalyst for speculations about a future in which the human perspective loses its former significance and ceases to be the measure of value and meaning.