Giuseppe Licari
ecologie - installatie - natuur - sculptuur - sociaal-maatschappelijk
With my practice I focus on the anthropological metabolic processes devising contemporary landscape. I am particularly interested on how our environment has been transformed in the last century through the industrial revolution and great acceleration. Capitalistic society has been driven by the constant exploitation of natural resources, and infinity growth. This has left behind a new layer of cultural heritage (trash, mines, pollution, depleted soils), which speaks out loud of our society and its habits in anthropogeological terms. This new layer we have created is the humus on which future generations of humans and non-humans have to live, and it is central in my practice.
I often collaborate with geologists, lawyers, botanists, and professionals from different fields in a multidisciplinary dialogue, addressing the work from different points of view. Through a socio-political lens, and with bolt and ephemeral interventions, my work addresses topics of ecology, cohabitation, and coexistence.