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ANTHROPO-SCENES
A painter, photographer and videographer, Du Zhenjun revisits the myth of the Tower of Babel, as Dante traveled through the circles of hell. Through the Internet, man’s lust for power brings humanity into the era of the Anthropocene and his influence on the Earth’s ecosystem is both devastating and irreversible.

Du Zhenjun transposes paintings dealing with the myth of Babel, be they from Cornelius Anthoniscz, Gustave Doré or Peter Brueghel. He uses thousands of images extracted from the World Wide Web, and poses the question of the future of humanity, prey to conflicts, natural …