“There Is No Cure” 2021, acrylics, gouache & spray paint on canvas, 315 x 150 cm
Exhibition
Open to the public | 1 August to 20 October 2021
Location | JW MARRIOTT Resort & Spa, Isola delle Rose, Venice (I) - the hotel can be reached by a free shuttle boat from San Marco.
Part of Venice Design Week (VWD) | 9 - 17 October 2021, co-organized by Michela Codutti and promoted by euroinnovators.
“There is no cure for the condition of belonging to the world. But, by taking care, we can cure ourselves of believing that we do not belong to it, that the essential question lies elsewhere, that what happens to the world does not concern us.”
The exhibition’s title image quotes Bruno Latour’s rejection of any escapism, be it toward the afterlife or outer space. Now it is a matter of accepting ourselves as part of this earth, of finally coming into the world. Hannah Stippl’s work is a call to this-worldliness and to the insight that what happens to the world concerns us directly.
“Entangled” 2021, acrylics, gouache & spray paint on paper, 80 x 60 cm
Only slowly do we understand the true scope of our connection, only “six degrees of separation”. This applies to the relationship to a market in Wuhan as well as to living beings in the lagoon or the melting ice in Greenland. “Entangled” means: We live in the midst of a complicated network of countless things and living beings, entangled in the global effects of the Antropocene.
“Dark Fern” - “Thicket” - “Gaia The Outlaw” - “Each Being” - “A Vast Ecosystem” 2021, acrylics, gouache & spray paint on paper, 80 x 60 cm
The exhibition shows works from the series "How to Speak about the Earth", which Hannah Stippl started in spring 2020, shortly before the first Covid-19 Lockdown. The focus is on the so-called "climate crisis" and Bruno Latour's analysis of the current situation in his book "Facing Gaia".
“Tausend Formen” - “Stille” - “Wie still” - “Bei der Erde” - “Nur eine Krise” - “Schritte hören”, 2020, acrylics, gouache & spray paint on paper, 76 x 56 cm
