JULIEN BONET - Eco Fear

Technique: Promptography on Hahnemühle Fine Art paper
Size: 50 x 40 cm
Edition: 3 + 1 AP
Year: 2024-25

Signed, dated and edition numbered by the artist on a separate label.

Eco fear

A figure, wrapped in a thorny garment, stands barefoot on the steppe. Between sparse vegetation and the vast sky, the body transforms into a living cactus—simultaneously protected and vulnerable.

With "Eco Angst, " Bonet captures a feeling that has characterized an entire generation: a constant state of alert in the face of ecological crises. Here, the body becomes landscape, the skin becomes armor—as if one must not only seek shelter in nature, but also defend oneself from it. The costume reflects a paradoxical relationship: fear of the loss of nature and fear of its unpredictable violence.

Historically, this figure harks back to archaic masks of protection and defense—crowns of thorns, porcupines, warrior's robes. But in the context of Bonet's Masqueraders series, the fear is no longer directed at predators or spirits, but at ourselves: at the consequences of our actions, at the irreversibility of destruction.

Thus, eco-anxiety becomes a portrait of an inner state. The thorns protrude outward, but they express a vulnerability within—a person who is both part of the problem and a victim of his own environment.

Part of the ongoing series Masquerades – contemporary myths between fear, ritual and collective memory.