Back to the Womb is a vision of regression in an age of collapse.
A dystopian ritual for a civilisation that can no longer face its
own reflection. Drawing from Douglas Rushkoff’s Survival
of the Richest, artist Allegra Kortlang exposes an invisible
perimeter that seemingly exists within the perpetual pursuit for
individual success: that of retreat. Here, success is stripped of
its heroic myths and is revealed as infantile insulation for the
mega-rich. The apocalypse becomes the final luxury product
of an ersatz elite, the stage upon which childlike technocrats
play survival within an industrial womb.
- © Trinity Mesimé Njume-Ebong, 2025
