"The Domed Structure of the Terribleness of the Flesh, where Marc Herrero has recreated an updated version of the Last Judgment, inspired by Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel. If, in the Renaissance, the end of times was represented as an accounting before God, in this case the ultimate judge would be the goddess Gaia. In a domed structure, but one that also resembles a gym, a panopticon, or even a cage, Herrero proposes an iconographic repertoire of contemporary times: instead of apostles and saints, on the panels of the dome he represents allegories of the abuses that humankind has committed to provoke a more than probable, not-so-distant apocalypse. Consumerism, liberalism, exploitation, extractivism... are manifested as mutant bodily symptoms, in an attitude that is not quite clear whether it is harassment or a plea for forgiveness. At the base, on the contrary, he replaces the angels and penitents with a series of situations in which nature triumphantly breaks through, regains its agency, and infiltrates the footprints of civilization. In a situation of ecological collapse, we will only access salvation if we allow nature to invade and collapse all spaces, both earthly and those of the world of ideas."
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