Cycles & Civilizations
An artistic exploration of natural and civilizational cycles
About this collection
The Cycles & Civilizations collection is a series of artistic installations that explore civilizational mechanisms, their evolution cycles, and the contemporary issues that arise from them. Through seven distinct works, this collection addresses themes such as intergenerational inequalities, nuclear energy, dependence on fossil fuels, the impact of chemistry on our bodies, the commodification of attention time, the limits of artificial intelligence, and interest-driven bellicism.
Inspiration
This collection draws inspiration from natural and civilizational cycles, exploring how collective choices shape our future. Each work uses strong symbols such as skeletons and golden elements to represent the duality between profit and consequences, between progress and destruction.
The works
Golden Age
Golden Age
Description
Skeleton sitting in a wheelchair. The lab coat and light evoke science and energy. It is the witness of wealth accumulation; Inherited from an era of sustained growth.
Concept
Installation about intergenerational inequalities, the role of inheritance, dismantling the myth of meritocracy.
Nuclear Revelation
Nuclear Revelation
Description
Green skeleton resting on a golden shovel. Displaying radioactive symbols reminiscent of a painful past, the emitted light represents nuclear energy; Obtained by taking these risks.
Concept
Installation about nuclear energy, its benefits, risks, and issues.
Black Gold
Black Gold
Description
Black skeleton restrained by a rope on a tire. The light filtering through the teeth marks the paradox of the discourse between the desire for degrowth and submission through energy constraint. The gold marks the tenor of our relationship with these resources that are fossil fuels.
Concept
Installation about the hypocrisy related to the subject of dependence on fossil fuels.
Chimeric Emergence
Chimeric Emergence
Description
Copper-colored skeleton emerging from a black and gold barrel. The light emanating from the barrel evokes the forced transformation carried out on nature. The black and gold evoke the toxicity and profit attached to it.
Concept
Installation about chemistry on our bodies, our environment, and the lack of control over its consequences.
Gold of Time
Gold of Time
Description
Golden skeleton without legs sitting in an armchair. Immobilized by its dependence on screens, the absence of legs marks the abandonment. The light serves as a third eye by virtue of supposed omniscience. The gold speaks of the source of income that the individual represents as a product.
Concept
Installation about the market that attention time has become and its consequences.
Suspended Evolution
Suspended Evolution
Description
Silver cybernetic skeleton standing on a golden electronic heap. The red light, a warning about the control of Man by the machine, the tubing recalls the human role in its design, and the golden base, the profit generated by its abuses.
Concept
Installation about the limits of artificial intelligence and transhumanism in human evolution and the ethical drifts that accompany it.
Gold Service
Gold Service
Description
Red skeleton in burned military uniform on golden battery barrel. The devastated uniform marks the violence, the light from the portable lamp recalls the hope of a way out of the tunnel. The golden barrel imposes the crash of propaganda justifying war and its atrocities by interests.
Concept
Installation about interest-driven bellicism and its consequences on the living beings who suffer from it.
About the Exhibition
Cycles & Civilizations is a contemporary and digital exhibition that explores civilizational mechanisms through the prism of evolution and energy. Each work represents a facet of our modern society, questioning our relationship with technology, resources, and our own humanity.
Skeletons, universal symbols of our mortality and fragility, are used as vectors of reflection on the collective choices that shape our future. The use of light and precious materials such as gold highlights the paradox between wealth and decay, between progress and self-destruction.
This collection invites the viewer to meditate on the cycles of growth and decline of civilizations, and on our responsibility in building a sustainable future.