Urgent Paradise reflects on the survival of cultural symbols in a possible future. What remains of nature when nature itself has disappeared? The images—where trunkless palm trees float weightlessly or drift across the sky—seem like fragments of a posthuman world, fragile echoes of something once alive. They appear as relics of a vanished ecology, severed from their roots, and raise the unsettling question: what does “paradise” mean when no Earth remains to hold it?
This afterimage of paradise opens a space to imagine a future where nature persists only as memory or projection—a fragile link between what once was and what might still come after the end. It is both an elegy for what is lost and a speculation on the persistence of longing beyond extinction.
about the artist
Tim Rod, born 1992, is a Swiss artist based in Bern, Switzerland. His own roots and family history are one of the central elements of his practice and his research, alongside collective visual culture.
