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We only think of art as something specifically human because we aren't yet capable of recognising that all living species have the ability to think, to judge and to change the world we know - an ability, however, which we readily attribute to every member of the human species. We have to learn to see every natural passage as the equivalent of a contemporary art exhibition curated by more than one species. What we call the forest is a thousand-year-old Biennial in which the arts of all species meet and mingle.
Emanuele Coccia is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS) in Paris. He has been invited as research professor by the Universities of Tokyo (2009), Buenos Aires (2010), Düsseldorf (2013-2014), Columbia University of New York (2015-2016), Weimar (2019) and Munich (2020).
His books include La vita sensibile (2010, translated into six languages). Il Bene nelle cose (2013, translated into six languages) La vita delle piante (2016, translated into ten languages) and Metamorphoses (Payot 2020, currently being translated for Einaudi Stile Libero).
In 2019 he contributed to the exhibition entitled Nous les Arbres held at the Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain in Paris.
The exhibition is part of the new cultural palimpsest of Roma Capitale Romarama
