The Chilean Embassy presents this afternoon at the Sala C of the Centro de Arte Tomás y Valiente in the Madrid town of Fuenlabrada, the exhibition of the Chilean artist Paloma Villalobos, Floating and Disappearing.
From a critical perspective on the global ecosocial catastrophe, the exhibition presents a selection of photographic portraits of icebergs that break off from enormous glacial platforms and float adrift around the Antarctic peninsula. Float and Disappear asks how our imaginary future is drawn without the presence of wild ecosystems: “pure” nature has become unviable in this sphere dominated by industrial activity and human impact. These places whisper that this south-polar space where climate rules is, paradoxically, one of the regions most threatened by the environmental crisis of the anthropocene, a context that announces, with dizzying speed, our own threat and uncertainty as societies.
