Exhibition — 2026 — Lisbon
No tempo dos humanos — In the time of humans
The work
Nature the Artist was invited to create a piece specifically for ANTROPO(CÉNICO), and it is the work that closes the exhibition.
Conceived as an archaeological find from a distant future, it preserves the image of a petrol pump — the emblem of the fossil-fuel age — as if it had been unearthed long after us. Seen from that imagined future, the piece sends us back to the present and asks what our era will leave inscribed in the history of the planet.
Are we a part, or apart?
Fazemos parte ou estamos à parte?
The exhibition
At the centre of the room, around ninety mammals from across the world rise on a white modular structure: vertical pillars act as trunks, and rotating “branches” can be repositioned for each animal. The mechanics stay visible, so the precision of the structure plays against the organic forms of the animals — an installation that interprets nature rather than recreating it.
Visitors walk around it as if circling a clearing, observing the animals and being observed in return. Short texts appear along the way as thoughts and questions rather than answers, and a fragment of trinitite, formed in the first atomic bomb test, stands as material evidence of humanity’s power to transform the Earth.
Opening night
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