ON THE RUINS OF THEIR MADNESS WE BUILD OUR LIVES 2024

On the ruins of their madness, we build our lives is a personal interpretation of the explorations carried out in ZADs (Zone à Défendre), notably in Lützerath, Germany. This is a place of towering trees, where environmentalists live in makeshift huts perched in the treetops. Every activist in these ZADs activists wear masks to protect their identities from the police. This life in the wilderness seems to offer many possibilities: to feel at home in the heart of the forest, to merge with nature and blend into the landscape. These activists seem to be naturalized, initiated into the wisdom of nature and its essence. The naked figure aspires to integrate the contributions of the wild spirit, a form of thought close to the primitive vitality of myths, to recover what has been forgotten or repressed by civilization.
In contrast to the artificial spaces created by industry and major infrastructure projects, activists advocate the preservation of untouched natural spaces, where the limits of our own being can be transcended. In this way, the Lützerath ZAD and others like it are social laboratories, places of resistance and experimentation, where a possible future is taking shape, far from the destructive madness of today’s society.