From January 19th → March 29th, 2024, Under Pressure will be on show at MedPhoto Festival 5 in the Museum of Contemporary Art of Crete, Rethymno. 

MedPhoto Festival firmly oriented towards critical issues of our time, organises its next event, under the title CRITICAL ARCHIVES VI: We Can’t Breathe, at the Contemporary Art Museum of Crete, focusing on the climate crisis and the social and political conditions that contextualise it. Overall, one cannot but look at the extreme and dangerous ways of exploiting natural resources leading to the widespread destruction of ecosystems. Yet, various contemporary artistic practices (encountered with theory and research) make an attempt to delve deeper into the meaning of ecocide and the importance of climate justice, highlighting that not all people are equally responsible for the climate crisis, as well as pointing to the dominant mechanisms of energy financialisation and greenwashing related to the disproportionate suffering that falls on countries of the Global South. More. 

Participating artists: Ursula Biemann, Evangelos Daskalakis, Sophie Gerrard, Petros Giannakouris, Marina Gioti, Kostas Kapsianis, Nikos Markou, Cristina De Middel & Bruno Morais, Giorgos Moutafis, Oliver Ressler, Zied Ben Romdhane, Jonas Staal, Ian Teh, Penelope Thomaidi, Michailangelos Vlassis Ziakas