Transparent

Transparent is a reflection on the ways we construct and simulate hyperrealistic depictions of nature and how we control the ways we envision the natural world. In the modern Anthropocene, the natural world is commonly conceptualised as something which can be engineered to our immediate needs and reduced to raw materials. Transparent uses capacitive sensors that allow the participant to control the rain that falls on the window, varying in location and intensity. This interaction offers the opportunity for the visitor to engage in a hyperrealistic fantasy where they have the ability to manipulate and govern this form of nature. Though Transparent creates a hyperrealistic depiction of nature, it also aims to exhibit the dualistic relation between humans and nature. Through climate and ecological collapse, our estranged relationship with nature is being dramatically redefined, forcing us to re-evaluate the way in which we understand, define and interact with it.