En route to the future of tomorrow’s future

The IPCC reports offer a consolidated view of the many research studies into climate change, and provide a clearer picture of how it will evolve up to the end of the 21st century. These changes have a long history, dating back to the emergence of industrial society at the end of the 19th century. Despite this long history and the growing body of knowledge on the subject, there are still many obstacles to the implementation of climate policies.

Cobie’s absurd universe illustrates the disarray of our lives in comic form. He plays with a world whose meaning we no longer grasp. His practice questions the definition of artistic practice in the face of modernity. In a consumer society based on standardization and mass production, Cobie uses screen printing and the reproducibility of his works to facilitate their dissemination in situ; the artistic experience is born of the context, of the encounter between his work and the public outside traditional cultural frameworks.

This is where the challenge lies: to break into the public arena and into everyone’s everyday life, in order to encourage reflection on climate change without resorting to guilt-tripping or moralizing. To nurture the creative process, Cobie will be immersed in the Grenoble scientific community, working on mountain issues on the Grenoble campus, and in the mid-mountain region of Beauvoir-en-Royans.