co-creating with nature // curator

SustainLab Show
13-17th May 2024

SustainLab RCA, a sustainability society at the Royal College of Art, presents its annual exhibition revealing RCA students’ works that embed sustainability through an exploration of materials and processes.

‘Co-creating with Nature’ explores environmentally conscious works of artists and designers who commit to sustainability through thinking about alternative systems and processes in their practice. Inviting nature as a co-creator, collaborator, and protagonist of narrative-making, the exhibition suggests the possibilities of creating collective forms of art with nature.

In What Is an Author (1969), Michel Foucault redefines the notion of author, subject, and subjectivation by integrating with heterogeneous elements, such as human and more-than-human. As Foucault challenged the pre-existing notion of the author in his book, the exhibition questions the binary notion that perceives humans as subjects and more-than-human beings as objects in art-making.

By featuring Design and Fine Art as separate exhibition spaces running simultaneously, we are allowing “the human” to observe and gather from the “more-than-human” however interchangeable in different environments.


Exhibiting artists:

Agathe de Saint Pierre, Anushka Khemka, Aarti Bhalekar, Camila Barvo, Chenqi Guan, Daisy Faruque, Daisy Jingyi Ye, Eleanor Rose, Elina Yumasheva, Jean Huang, Jihun Choi, Medina Duchini Zullo, Mado Watson, Mengyan Guo, Milagros Kuga, Niko Raic, Phill Pezo, Reeti Roy, Riya Bhagat, Riya Mahajan, Shruti Gaonkar, Simona Racheva, Sofia Barbe, Taro Thanakit Krasienapibal, Thomas Scrimgeour, Tyler Danielle Potter, Vaishakhi Wasnik, Xinyue Zhang, Yahvi Duggal, Yuening Jian.

Curating team: Giada Holland, Hoi Man Lai, Yenah Kim, Zofia Kierkus