The Biennale Gherdëina 10 – (Future) Paradise Gardens in South Tyrol’s Val Gardena explores the complex relationship between nature, technology, and political responsibility in the context of the global climate crisis. Set against a backdrop of abstract rock formations and a tourist-oriented Alpine landscape, the exhibition does not present an idealized return to a long-gone natural state. In the Anthropocene, we must confront new questions that go beyond the mere domination of nature. While art cannot solve the growing ecological problems, it can highlight moments of melancholy and failure and perhaps hint at possible scenarios for coexistence in a state of permanent transformation.
