ttentive observation
the staging (mise-en-scène) of the objets as in studio still-life photography is replaced here by carefully choosing the framing of the image
focussing on the traces of human beings and their remainders; the few human bodies that appear in this series are not clearly identifiable, they appear anonymous; their actions are more important than their identities
zooming in: trying to find survival mechanisms on the individual - i.e. micro level - to survive the destructive forces of the Anthropocene > going from the micro to the macro
as I imagine the project, it should be a collection of innumerable posters, placarded through the whole building or even city; there are so many different images, because they are like snapshots, like a diary of everyday life moments; some of the pictures and the quotes are more serious/deep/philosophical, others are more ironic/humorous/light-hearted just like our daily life thoughts and experiences
why did I choose these 4 images to exhibit on the wall? because they give essential keys to ease into the project and the subject matter > synthesis
making kin not babies - „heureusement qu’on existe ensemble“: how we can overcome these destructive cycles and connect with each, recognizing our shared vulnerability and our mutual interdependency?

„Trouble is an interesting word. It derives from a thirteenth-century French verb meaning “to stir up,” “to make cloudy,” “to disturb.” We […] live in disturbing times, mixed-up times, troubling and turbid times. The task is to become capable, with each other […] to make kin in lines of inventive connection as a practice of learning to live and die well with each other in a thick present. Our task is to make trouble, to stir up potent response to devastating events, as well as to settle troubled waters and rebuild quiet places. […] Making kin as oddkin … troubles important matters, like to whom one is actually responsible. Who lives and who dies, and how, in this kinship rather than that one? What shape is this kinship, where and whom do its lines connect and disconnect, and so what?“
(Donna J. Haraway, Staying with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene, 2016