Subduing Nature explores the ongoing relationship between humanity and the natural world, focusing on artificial representations of nature within urban environments. This work examines the historical and contemporary dualism between nature and civilisation. A tension that has persisted for centuries.
Drawing from Cicero’s De Natura Deorum, where Balbus the Stoic observes humanity’s efforts to reshape nature through agriculture, irrigation and infrastructure, the project considers how this impulse has evolved under the demands of modern city life. As urbanisation advances, the separation between society and nature becomes increasingly stark, leading to the relentless reproduction of controlled wilderness, biodiversity loss and ecological collapse.
Through this lens, Subduing Nature reflects on how human behaviour is shaped by the exigencies of capitalist power, questioning the consequences of a world where nature exists primarily as a curated and commodified spectacle.
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