The scenery glows in an artificial idyll. Too green, too empty, too quiet, too untouched. Accompanied by spherical, slightly threatening sounds, the scene changes insidiously. Poster after poster, hotel after hotel towards a dying, disintegrating landscape.

Michael Spahr created "Human Nature$" for the Industrietempel Video Art Festival 2022 in Ludwigshafen (DE). The work won second prize in the competition on the theme of "Consumerism". The video collage deals with the topics of nature, climate and tourism. Photos of hotels, billboards and bird protection stickers are brought to life. A mountainscape in the Bernese Oberland becomes a Polynesian volcanic desert - a metamorphosis caused by longing and greed.