Mr. President, Ladies and Gentlemen,
Our house is burning down and we’re blind to it. Nature, mutilated and overexploited, can no longer regenerate and we refuse to admit it. Humanity is suffering. It is suffering from poor development, in both the North and the South, and we stand indifferent. The earth and humankind are in danger, and we are all responsible.
(J.Chirac, Earth summit, 2002)
More than twenty years later, how can we explain this ever-widening gap between awareness and action? More than twenty years later, how can we explain that disasters are not natural, but the consequence of our own lifestyle choices?
At the crossroads of sustainability and resilience, our cognitive biases continue to prevent us from questioning our habits and leaving our comfort zones.
Reminding our inability to question ourselves, this sci-fi collage of disrupted cities by climate change is framed by President J. Chirac’s speech at the UN in 2002. Printed on argentic paper, it disappears under the effect of UV rays.
Print sizes: ab 120 x 90 cm (47 x 35 inches), Shooting places: Paris, France / Dublin, Ireland / Rome, Italy