Presented by: ESPRONCEDA – Institute of Art & Culture
Venue: Virtual Exhibition (Online)
Link: Explore the exhibition
About the Exhibition
It’s the official launch of the E-ART Virtual Exhibition: Invisible Natures and Future Ecologies: From Decay to Regeneration. Developed by ESPRONCEDA Institute of Art & Culture and co-curated with the partners of the E-ART Project, the exhibition brings together artistic practices exploring fragile, interdependent systems where decay and renewal coexist.
For Spain (ESPRONCEDA), this online exhibition continues the journey of artworks originally shown in the We Stay with the Trouble exhibition at ESPRONCEDA. Visitors can now explore these works digitally, along with pieces created in Sweden (Intercult), Greece (CUBE), Italy (Matera Hub), Bulgaria (OECON), and Ireland (I&F) during the summer and fall of 2025.
Crafted with plastic, paper, ceramics, textiles, natural pigments, and found objects, the artworks emerge from community-based workshops, exploring how art can transform decay into regeneration — revealing new ways to imagine care, renewal, and coexistence within our changing world.
Artworks and Interactive Gallery
The exhibition features 48 selected artworks created with environmentally conscious materials and experimental methods developed within the E-ART project. Step inside the interactive gallery and move freely through six immersive rooms — wander among 3D sculptures, admire paintings and installations, and pause before moving image works by artists from across Europe.
Curatorial Statement
Invisible Natures and Future Ecologies: From Decay to Regeneration brings together artistic practices that explore the fragile, interdependent systems where decay and renewal coexist. Conceived through collaborative creation during the E-ART Project’s Art Labs, the exhibition reflects on how art can act as both witness and catalyst within the climate crisis.
In a time of ecological and social transformation, this project reimagines art as an ecological dialogue — a space for care, imagination, and regeneration. Moving between extraction and rebirth, it examines the materials, gestures, and collective processes that sustain or exhaust our shared world.
Through this constellation of works, viewers are invited to inhabit the ruins of the present not with despair, but with attention and hope — envisioning pathways toward a more sustainable and interconnected future, where creativity and community become tools of renewal.
Exhibition Rooms
Room 1 — Resource Extraction & Earth’s Origins
Extraction appears as both origin and wound. These works trace the paradox of material culture — how geological wonder coexists with industrial exploitation. Every pigment, fragment, and mineral carries both memory and consequence, reminding us that creation and consumption are inseparable acts in the story of the Earth.
Room 2 — Waste & Overconsumption
This room confronts the aftermath of excess. Waste is not absence but persistence — what remains, transforms, and reshapes our landscapes. Through acts of reconfiguration and reuse, the works turn discarded materials into fertile ground for renewal, where decay becomes the first stage of regeneration.
Room 3 — Pollution & Industrial Impact
Factories, smokestacks, and residues of industry appear here as emblems of both progress and loss. The works reveal how toxicity infiltrates the air, water, and body — yet also how, within this contamination, life continues to adapt and persist, refusing erasure.
Room 4 — Climate Change & Fragility
A planet in flux takes form through gestures of instability and tenderness. Rising seas, vanishing habitats, and shifting atmospheres appear as both warning and call to care. The works float like fragile relics, evoking the melancholy of loss and the quiet possibility of repair.
Room 5 — Human Connection & Responsibility
Amid uncertainty, this space centers empathy and cohabitation. The works unfold in a dream-like realm, drawing from collective memory and shared responsibility. Through gestures of touch and assembly, they remind us that care — emotional, material, and ecological — is a transformative act.
Room 6 — Regeneration & Future Ecologies
Emerging from darkness, light re-enters. This final space envisions new beginnings: speculative forms and hopeful worlds where repair and rebirth are not fantasies but ongoing processes. Even in decay, seeds of renewal take root — inviting us to imagine futures of coexistence and resilience.
This exhibition reimagines art as an ecological dialogue — moving between extraction and regeneration, confronting environmental realities while opening spaces for reflection, care, and transformation. Each room invites you to reconsider your place in the planetary web and to envision pathways toward resilience.
