Unnatural Processes
鈥淭hrowing light onto the unnatural, reflecting on and exploring new connections with non-human systems.鈥�
Westbeth Gallery is pleased to present a group show curated by Val茅rie Hallier. Unnatural Processes is an exhibition that asks the questions: What is 鈥淣ature鈥�? What is 鈥淣atural鈥�?
Nature is an all encompassing entity that exists without humans. Yet, it is impossible to think of humanity as an entity that could exist without nature. Seeing humanity and all its actions as part of nature is more reasonable. French anthropologist, Philippe Descola, observes 4 ways of 鈥渂eing鈥� in the world as humans: animism, totemism, analogism and naturalism. If we agree that our thought processes are firmly welded into Western philosophy, prizing the rational, scientific, and logical, we can then agree that we embody naturalism. Yet as artists we are open to other ways of being, thinking, and seeing. The work of the eight international artists featured in this show revisits our contemporary relationship with the non-human. A great variety of mediums and processes are all centered around new ways to visualize and interact with our environment: virtual, real, or re-created.
鈥淭hrowing light onto the unnatural, reflecting on and exploring new connections with non-human systems.鈥�
Westbeth Gallery is pleased to present a group show curated by Val茅rie Hallier. Unnatural Processes is an exhibition that asks the questions: What is 鈥淣ature鈥�? What is 鈥淣atural鈥�?
Nature is an all encompassing entity that exists without humans. Yet, it is impossible to think of humanity as an entity that could exist without nature. Seeing humanity and all its actions as part of nature is more reasonable. French anthropologist, Philippe Descola, observes 4 ways of 鈥渂eing鈥� in the world as humans: animism, totemism, analogism and naturalism. If we agree that our thought processes are firmly welded into Western philosophy, prizing the rational, scientific, and logical, we can then agree that we embody naturalism. Yet as artists we are open to other ways of being, thinking, and seeing. The work of the eight international artists featured in this show revisits our contemporary relationship with the non-human. A great variety of mediums and processes are all centered around new ways to visualize and interact with our environment: virtual, real, or re-created.
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