The blast of a nuclear explosion, the bleaching of coral, a house whose foundations are inexorably liquefying, a sandcastle collapsed of black oil... These are all motifs with philosophical, political and ecological messages that visual artist Malik Mara brings to his first solo show at Galerie Bacqueville.
His paintings and installations speak to us of what underpins our times: short-termism, …
His paintings and installations speak to us of what underpins our times: short-termism, the exhaustion of a system that has no choice but to rethink itself, and the causal link between our activity - the famous Anthropocene era in which we live - and our environment. In the face of our …