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'A Golden Spike' seeks to explore and counter the idea of nature as no more than the backdrop to human affairs. The exhibition takes its cue from the powerful knock-on effect of reduced travel emissions on the environment while over a third of the world population live in lockdown.

'The conception of the natural world on which sociology, political science, history, law, economics and philosophy have rested for two centuries – that of an inert standing reserve of resources, an unresponsive external backdrop to the drama of human affairs – is increasingly difficult to defend.’

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