1816: It’s the year that goes down in history as the year without summer, and Mary Shelley is to create Frankenstein, a genius forcing nature to bend to his will, ending up in destruction with his monster assembled from corpses‘ parts. A Year without Summer is an apocalyptic vision of artificial life: In an attempt to conquer nature, the body becomes the testing ground, subjected to ever more radical climatic conditions.

A Year without Summer is about improving nature to the point of perversion, and about playing off the promise of eternal life against the certainty of death.