Au-delà de la nature : The Blue Fossil Entropic Stories de Julian Charrière

Authors

Kyveli Mavrokordopoulou, EHESS, ParisFollow

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

6-15-2017

Abstract

In this short article - case study, I explore the question of how art may help us reflect on the new conception of nature that the Anthropocene confronts us with. I focus on the photographic series The Blue Fossil Entropic Stories I,II,III (2013) by Swiss artist Julian Charrière and its reassessment of an idea of nature inherited from the romantic period. I analyse the way in which these pictures reinterpret romantic landscape painting in order to suggest an equal relation of human and nature, where human and non-human entities hold equal sway. My theoretical framework is based on Timothy Morton’s criticism on the idea of nature as an anthropocentrically-scaled concept and his argument on the potential art has in imagining environmental projects for the future.

Recommended Citation / Citation recommandée

Mavrokordopoulou, Kyveli. "Au-delà de la nature : The Blue Fossil Entropic Stories de Julian Charrière." The Goose, vol. 16 , no. 1 , article 3, 2017,
https://scholars.wlu.ca/thegoose/vol16/iss1/3.