DE RERUM NATURA

Fotografie di Áron Tóth-Heyn

Rubrica: Periscope
A cura di Claudio Composti
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Is there a boundary between the environment we create and the one shaped by nature beyond us? De Rerum Natura – Latin for “The Nature of Things” or “The Things of Nature” – explores the dialogue between living beings and inanimate matter, tracing the shifting boundaries between natural and artificial, and reconsidering humanity’s place within this continuum. The project adopts a materialist vision in which human beings are not exceptions to nature but expressions of it – a thinking, collective phenomenon. From this perspective, there is only one environment: a unified whole in which everything, including ourselves and our creations, emerges as a natural consequence. The series presents a collection of traces – a visual meditation on the Technocene – casting new light on “human nature” and what it means to be human in an era where nature and artifice are inseparably intertwined.