LARNACA BIENNALE, CHIPRE

Exposição coletiva

Larnaca Biennale / Larnaca, Chipre

2025

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Curadoria:

Sana López Abellán

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​In From the Times When We Worshiped Machines, Nathalie Ventura explores a world where marks are becoming less and less connected to humans. Using a press to transfer a charcoal stick between two sheets, one surface becomes a dense, almost sculptural blackness, while the other bears a delicate trace of both material and motion.
Hundreds of years ago, when the power of fire and the power of the machine were united, a path of transformation started that is, to this day, transforming the logic on Earth. While technological progress has enriched human life, it has made the world increasingly inhospitable for countless nonhuman beings. In Ventura's work, charcoal tells its own story: in essence, burned wood, a medium traced since prehistoric times and now refined into a recognized artistic language. By revisiting this origin of mankind, and pointing to the questions that are associated with it, a dialogue emerges between matter, action, and consequence.