ARTIST STATEMENT

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No Mother Nature asks how metaphor shapes our relationship to the Earth. Metaphors make complex realities graspable, but they also carry assumptions that can become difficult to see. As Bruno Latour has argued, the concepts through which we describe the world are not neutral; they structure what we value, what we ignore, and what kinds of relationships we believe are possible.

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The phrase “Mother Nature” appears to offer care and origin, yet it also anthropomorphises the natural world through inherited systems of gender and hierarchy. Within dualisms—nature and culture, wilderness and civilisation, woman and man—nature has often been imagined as a gentle, endlessly forgiving female presence. This image can make exploitation seem permissible: no matter how much humanity extracts, damages, or disrupts, “Mother Nature” is expected to heal and embrace us.

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Created as a six-minute facade projection and sound work, No Mother Nature proposes another image of the Earth: dynamic, heterogeneous, and beyond complete human comprehension. Magnificent yet precarious landscapes unfold as unknown territories, while a woman’s body is gradually submerged in deep water. This final gesture unsettles the familiar feminine metaphor and reminds us that nature is not a passive backdrop to human life, but a force that can exceed, transform, and undo us. There is no Mother Nature.

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