Statement
Gea
In Totem and taboo, the psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud presents an evolution of the way used by human beings to comprehends the world. In the beginning there is an animistic stage where the omnipotence of ideas and magic prevails. Psychic laws overcome the laws of Nature. Then this stage is replaced by the religious one, in which omnipotence is ceded to the gods. Finally, the religious stage is substituted by the scientific one. The scientific stage is characterized by man’s desire to control the outside world in response to his three great fears: the threatening Nature, his own finitude and his relationship with his fellow men.
The relationship between man and Nature has always been complex. Man seeks to dominate it and at the same time separate himself from it, forgetting that Nature constitutes the origin and fabric of life.
In this project I wish to present Nature on the one hand as depth and mystery, revelation and becoming, evidencing its ephemeral nature. And, on the other hand, I want to present man’s drive for the categorization of the world, at the service of Thanatos.
