Urgent Arts of Living aims to create a space where both artists and audience can imaginatively and critically engage in constructive debate about the ecological and social crisis that surrounds us today. The series of photographs compiled in this exhibition exemplifies an emerging form of narrative where images are seen “not as objective representations of reality, but as little arguments.”* These introduce us to immediate ways of experiencing and understanding our role in nature, and our relationship with both natural and social resources. We might discover a better life than what we know now.
*Max Pinckers, quoted from Matthew Ponsford, “Max Pinckers tracks the Margins of Excess between truth and fiction”, in: British Journal of Photography, July 2018, p. 67.