East, London
Group Exhibition
Total Climate, Part 1: The Infinitesimal and the Mobile
Nicoletti ContemporaryMercedes Azpilicueta, Gaëlle Choisne, Evan Ifekoya, Paul Maheke, Josèfa Ntjam, Daniela Ortiz We are delighted to present Total Climate, Part 1: The Infinitesimal and the Mobile, the first chapter of a three-part exhibition reflecting upon the relationship between colonial history and ecology. Inspired by a range of discourses exploring the links between social inequality and environmental destruction, total climate presents the work of artists whose practices conjure the interwovenness of natural and historical processes, exposing the way in which natural exploitation, cultural domination and territorial possession are often part of the same imperial gesture. In Total Climate, Part 1: The Infinitesimal and the Mobile, we begin investigating the nature and effects of this entanglement through a material approach to the environment. The exhibition focuses on processes occurring at a molecular level, examining how the most tenuous and volatile elements evolving beyond our visible spectrum condition reality as we experience it. As a reverse implication, the artworks presented consider the ways in which historical mechanisms, affects and trauma are embedded in the very composition of the environment, including our bodies and the air we breathe. Total Climate is elaborated by a research group composed of artist Gaëlle Choisne, Nicoletti’s director Camille Houzé and curator and researcher Estelle Marois. The second and third chapters will be organised at Nicoletti in 2023 and 2024.