THE ECHOES OF CONFLICT
31 May – 12 July 2025 at HEAD HIGH Second Floor
Humanity has advanced its civilisation over millions of years through conflicts. Empires rise and fall. Ideological conflicts emerge. Wars break out over questions of faith and power interests. The struggle for resources and power has become the most important driving force in the world, from colonial times to the present day.
Even though the world has entered an age of advanced technology, the echoes of past conflicts are still palpable. Humans have created democracy and human rights. We are led to believe that we are making progress with the development of nuclear weapons and digital authoritarian states. Each generation continues to wage war like the one before, only with the most modern technology at its disposal.
Nationalism, once a means of uniting people, has once again become a pretext for division, for the struggle for resources and power. This was true in the past and remains one of the driving forces of geopolitics today. War no longer takes place only on the battlefield, but also through trade wars, sanctions, cyber warfare and propaganda. People today dream of living among the stars or on other planets, yet it has not yet managed to free itself from the repetitive cycle that has driven so-called civilisation into conflicts from the very beginning.
