What ideological, social and biophysical factors have precipitated the current environmental crises? What leverage is available for transformative practices and imaginaries to overcome the continuous growth of our energy consumption?

The Post Growth exhibition invites us to challenge the dominant narratives about growth and progress, and explore the radical implications of a speculative economic model based on energy emitted by the Sun. The exhibition looks at perspectives for a shift away from the overexploitation of fossil fuels, ancient sunlight, the force on which the reproduction of our societies depends today.

The series of artworks presented re-envision social metabolism through an understanding of the energy it requires, reconnecting human survival with the living, material qualities of the biosphere, drawing on ecofeminism, indigenous knowledge, envi- ronmental accounting and historical materialism.

In complement to the main exhibition, a series of workshops, discussions and filmed interviews will further explore the forms that a post-fossil society could take and the challenges we need to confront to get there.

Post Growth is an invitation to a collective and practical examination of the future of life on the planet, the notion of growth in all its facets and implications, the limits of technology, of politics and of our imaginations.

More in depth information about the boardgame and the videos of the interviews from the Post Growth Toolkit are now available on this website built by DISNOVATION.ORG

• RTBF: "iMAL présente l'exposition POST GROWTH, qui explore les perspectives de sortie d’une surexploitation des combustibles fossiles dont dépend aujourd’hui la reproduction de nos sociétés." (FR) Read it here.
• We Make Money Not Art: "The POST GROWTH show grapples with overwhelming issues that would normally make me want to bury my head in the sand. But because the works exhibited weave practical and theoretical ideas, depressing facts and uplifting concepts, healthy scepticism and appeals to our imaginations, individual decisions and collective actions, I emerged from my visit at iMAL with a sense of hope." (EN) Read it here.
• HOLO Magazine: "Life... After the Crash" (EN)
• Usbek & Rica: "Monde d’après » : 9 concepts imagés pour mieux en parler" (FR)
• Uncontemporary Art: "Scenes of a Post Growth world at iMAL" (EN)