‘We are dependent on nature but nature is not dependent on us’

As museums and art galleries closed their doors due to the COVID-19 measures announced last week, many exhibitions had to shut down abruptly or else were postponed. One of these is the exhibition Light is Time Thinking About Itself by Antje Liemann, which had opened at MUŻA’s Community Space on March 5 and has now been rescheduled for summer. As an artist, Liemann is concerned about the fragility of humankind and often questions both our existence and reality. Through her latest multi-disciplinary project, she explores the possibility of a future world dominated by nature rather than humans. Liemann took the lockdowns and quarantine periods due to the current pandemic as the starting point for her artistic concept. “What has been accepted as ‘normal life’ in a very short time would have been unimaginable just a few months ago. I used this feeling as a starting point for the project concept,” she explains. “In this strange new environment, I think that, perhaps, the pendulum of the world is swinging back towards balance and nature has begun to invade parts of the world that have been taken over by humanity. Dolphins have been seen in Malta’s harbours. In other countries, wild...