Exhibition trailer 1 for my solo show Migration In the Anthropocene at Galleri Duerr in Stockholm. Sep 17 - Oct 24, 2020.

For this installation I had the pleasure to collaborate with the musician Klas Eriksson who wrote this music piece for this video. He is a member of the Swedish band Storstan, which is a New Orleans style street party brass band.

Migration In the Anthropocene

The Anthropocene can be translated as the human age after the Greek anthropos, for “human,” and “cene,” meaning “new”. The Anthropocene is a proposed geological epoch in which human-kind is the primary cause of permanent planetary change. It would thereby replace the Holocene, which we have been living in since it began 11,700 years ago after the last major ice age.

We humans displace and change the constituents of our earth like no other being. With our inventions we transform the natural world into an artificial world controlled by mankind. We are transforming the earth's biomass into human mass.

The title of the exhibition, Migration in the Anthropocene, alludes to the fact that ecosystems are on the run from a human vision for the world. It refers to the movements that take place when the earth warms up, which also changes our identity. The title aims to give all planetary constituents an intrinsic value.

We humans often demand a motivation for why something should exist, what we should have a plant or an animal for, how they should serve us. A raison d'être that strikes back at our own well-being. So what is our answer, if all the plants, animals, lakes, seas, mountains, glaciers, air and atmosphere of the world should ask us - What is your reason for being?

September 4th 2020 / Vegan Flava

The exhibition is linked to the 17 sustainability goals adopted by the UN in 2015. In particular goal 13, Climate Action.