The Anthropocenus was officially announced in 2017. Geologists agree on pointing now the action of man as the new engine that defines the whole dynamic of the planet.
Despite the efforts and its obvious failure, an economic model based on the abusive exploitation of natural resources and production of useless goods is still being taken as an example for a prosperous future in most underdeveloped countries.
After decades of historical exploitation by the official metropolis, Africa is now hopelessly embracing the remains of other's mistakes becoming a target market for low quality and highly toxic products with hardly any planning made to manage the “after party”.
We decided to approach all environmental issues as a whole and visually analyze the consequences of this excess in those territories that are more exposed and less prepared to its conseuqences.
We wanted visualise the effects of macro-economics into African micro-routines.
Excessocenus was the winning project at the Greenpeace Photo Award 2016 and was first exhibited at the Coalmine Museum Winterthur in January 2018.
This website was designed by Guillermo Brotons and developed by Frederik Delmotte.