Laura Pugno
Dominante / Recessivo
2018
photographic printing, wood, glass and polyurethane
44x32x19 cm
Courtesy the artist

THE BLANK CONTEMPORARY ART
99 WORDS WITH LAURA PUGNO

Our envelope, as I have called it, the cultural insulation that separates us from nature, is rather like (to use a figure that has haunted me from childhood) the window of a lit-up railway carriage at night. Most of the time it is a mirror of our own concerns, including our concern about nature. As a mirror, it fills us with the sense that the world is something which exists primarily in reference to us: it was created for us; we are the centre of it and the whole point of its existence. But occasionally the mirror turns into a real window, through which we can see only the vision of an indifferent nature that got along for untold aeons of time without us, seems to have produced us only by accident, and, if it were conscious, could only regret having done so. 

[Northrop Frye, Creation and Recreation]