Precipitazioni sotto il livello del mare

In a saline environment that has been desertified due to climate change, Precipitazioni sotto il livello del mare (Precipitation Below Sea Level), Luca Petti’s solo exhibition in the Careof space (Milan), presents the artist’s most recent research on the hybridisation between the animal and vegetable worlds and on the evolutionary paths that have been created since the Anthropocene. Starting from the consideration that organic, inorganic elements and technology are the foundations of our era, Petti analyses the transformations of matter to raise awareness of the survival conditions of the planet, which are increasingly endangered by human action.

His is a nature that has become extreme, where humans, due to their own action, have disappeared. In its place roam a series of organisms that have reconstituted themselves in unexpected forms and functions in order to survive. A dystopian bestiary that takes shape from the earth’s original conditions, when, millions of years ago, the waters of the Mediterranean almost completely evaporated leaving a dry, deep basin. Petti populates this environment — consisting only of saline sediments — with new imaginary beings that, rebelling against human hegemony, manage to coexist in their diversity.