Extinction. The world without us!
A unique catalog covering the work of 30 photographers selected through a special call by the Urbanautica Institute. Altogether these works help us to draw a map of issues, questions, perspectives, interpretations. Would we keep believing that we can exist above or outside of nature? This is a possibility which however is increasingly translating into a threat to our survival. It is up to us to decide whether we want to reconsider our position on this planet.
The catalog 'Extinction' starts with an introductory quote by the philosopher Günther Anders that leads us to consider the gravity of the human situation at a time when our blatant subordination to progress is increasingly consciously felt. As if the human race was left with nothing but chasing the consequences of its actions. Constant attempts to remedy man-made damage and catastrophes appear increasingly pitiful and clumsy; like emptying water from a sinking ship with a bucket. This “Promethean shame” undermines the Enlightenment creed that had opened the windows on a rosy and promising future. An ascent to widespread well-being pushed by the triumph of reason, on emancipation from a mediocre past, on the dare to know, on the split between culture and nature. Unfortunately for us, all that remains are the ashes of this age-old illusion, of this macabre utopia by now vanished.
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