Invisible Natures - Art and Covid-19
by Ravi Agarwal A deadly fog looms, hiding dark demons of fear. Like a hyper-object, it is all enveloping yet cannot be grasped. [1] A sign of the times. Climate change and Covid-19, both ghosts hiding within it, are but invisible and difficult to trace to specific origins. A balance has been lost. A larger malaise
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by Ravi Agarwal Is nature only an idea? Maybe it does not exist, but is only produced as a ‘view.’ Created solely through our social, poetic and political selves, nature becomes an imaginary repository of contemporary times. The ecological crisis cannot be ‘fixed’ as a return to Paradise, but needs a fundamental re-evaluation
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