Nicolas Party discusses the themes in his exhibition at Xavier Hufkens’ St-Georges gallery, Cascade (2023).
‘It’s interesting for me to think about the apocalypse and art history, of Sodom and Gomorrah, and other historical paintings of fires that represent the ending of the world. We believe, and we feel, now that we are at the end of our path of humans as global warming brings us to ecological crisis, but this feeling has been almost a constant, from Noah’s Arc to different apocalyptic tales in the Bible to the nuclear bombings of WWII.’ – Nicolas Party.
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