A FABLE FOR TOMORROW

The post-anthropocene landscape in the aftermath of the worst nuclear disaster forms the central focus of the collaborative exhibition project “A Fable for Tomorrow”.

Imran Channa often uses archive materials in his artistic work. Based on this, he employs game development software for the creation of immersive 3D landscapes that refer to a speculated future. He digitally navigates the viewer through the monstrous architecture of the accident site, a nuclear power plant after the meltdown. The journey leads beyond the reactor through the shaft of the cooling tower into a devastated landscape, which unfolds analogously in the philomena+ project space and transforms it into a space of experience.

Kateryna Lysovenko refers in her painting to the Red Forest, the exclusion zone in Chernobyl after the nuclear disaster of 1986. Due to the high levels of radiation, the pine trees turned reddish-brown and died, and mutations in the genetic material of humans and animals occurred. After the evacuation of the people, more animals moved into the area. In the years that followed, the diversity of fauna and flora in the Red Forest increased significantly. Nature in this area not only seems to have survived, but also thrived.