Raster returns to Paris Photo with a curated presen­tation focused on photographic represen­tations of the inter­sec­ting frin­ges of the human environ­ment and wildlife.

The photographs on display were created between the 1970s and the present day and range in charac­ter from documen­tary to per­for­mative to purely creative. They are united by a premonition of the Anth­ropocene crisis and a reference to nature’s poten­tial as an ambivalent symbol of vitality and entropy.

Two historical works – Zofia Rydet’s expres­sive photomon­tage and Krzysz­tof Pruszkowski’s typology of Parisian street bar­riers – are a humanistic reac­tion to “animalisation,” the violence inherent in social relations.

In turn, the works of con­tem­porary artists – Aneta Grzeszykow­ska, Michał Łuczak, Łukasz Rusz­nica and Kazuhito Tanaka – penetrate the world of nature accom­panying man, showing the con­tem­porary dimen­sion of “wild­ness”, ‘natural­ness’, but also “artificiality”.
13–16 Novem­ber, Grand Palais, Paris.

In col­laboration with Adam Mic­kiewicz Institute.

Co-​financed by the Ministry of Cul­ture and National Heritage of the Republic of Poland.