Fortuna, Pedro Jorge Caldeira de MatosMalard, Damien2024-03-222024-03-222023-11-16http://hdl.handle.net/10451/63707At a time when humans are positioning themselves as a major geological force on Earth, the unprecedented environmental consequences and reactions are leaving humanity powerless and in considerable uncertainty about the future of the planet and its ways of life. This artistic investigation consider modernization as a phenomenon of intoxication of natural and urban space. A burden that has become too present, that is now alienating the condition of many ways of life on Earth, including the human one, forcing the modification of behaviours, lifestyles and thoughts. What modifications are taking place in the way we view this phenomenon, especially among contemporary artists and others actors in the visual arts. How does the Anthropocene influence the representation of our society in contemporary art? While the dominant aesthetic has always been driven and succeeded by fashion movements, or rather strong widespread influences, we see, in contemporary art and dominant urban culture, an alienated aesthetic, constantly shifting towards a hybrid reality. The border between science fiction and the near future is becoming very ambiguous. It presents a set of personal works created between 2020 and 2022, addressing in a personal way the issues related to the impacts of the Anthropocene on the landscape. The consequences are concretely palpable today; in our flora and fauna, for example, which have already initiated strange mutation processesporMalard, Damien, 1996-PinturaPaisagemMutaçãoHibridaçãoAntropocenoNarrativa visualmaster thesis203539486