2023 - 2024 on-going
Under the influence of climate change the weather is becoming more extreme. More flooding’s, heavy rainfall and longer periods of unpredictable drought. Seasons seem to fade or to shift completely. Scientists talk about a new era, the Anthropocene, which started during the Industrial Revolution, in which humankind has an influence on the climate and could be the cause of the sixth extinction wave.
How will this be translated to the Dutch landscape we inhabit, in which every inch is functional? Are we putting nature to our hands, or are we being influences by it?
The paradox of our time is that our short-term thinking of the Western consumption society has an influence on the long term. For the first time in history men has an influence on the al-encompassing climate. Which brings us at a social and ecological crossroad, the battle between short-term thinking and a sustainable future.
A central question in Michael's research is how our relation to time influences the connection to the land we inhabit?
With 'IT MIGHT AS WELL BE SPRING' Michael is undertaking his most philosophical research to date.
As an answer to his latest project at home, 'THE NEW COAST' in which he traversed the imaginary new coastline as a consequence of sea level rise, he now went on a quest to imagine a World beyond climate change.
A ritual to find a new relationship with his own surroundings. A meditation on human and geological time. While the problem of climate change goes past our human perspective or years, decennia or, what could be, a century, we are ‘facing the planetary’, as to speak with William Connoly’s words, by interfering with planetary processes that take hundreds of millennia.
Solo-exhibition at Museum Villa Mondriaan, Winterswijk
Opening 8th of November 2024
Open from 9th of November 2024 until 11th of May 2025
Made possible with the support of
Gemeente Winterswijk, Provincie Gelderland, Zawabas & Mondriaan Fonds
