(C2H4)n, 2019
Single channel video
4.30 minutes
Giclee prints
As the world changes, humankind seeks to define itself within a new shifting landscape. Our inhabited world is a place of continual excess growth; as cities are rapidly built and expanded, they inadvertently embody our dreams and desires, imbued with a sense of permanence and immortality. Yet, since the world is in constant flux they cities exist as a contradiction to it. The future is often depicted with landscapes of glistening cities and hovering cars, or dystopian visions. As vast environmental change is predicted, we stand at a crossroads of alternative futures; one of optimism and one of damnation. However, perhaps it is possible to reflect and see a middle route that is more in tune with our human condition of continual transformation. Through fragmentary images, landscapes and text (C2H4)n explores this relationship we have with the present, past and future, imagining a world that is perhaps truer to the human condition, an environment and continual journey of the undefined and the in-between.
