The Ready-Wild is a conceptual and sculptural practice that reinterprets the legacy of the readymade through the designation of an already existing wilderness as an artwork. Rather than appropriating an industrial object, the Ready-Wild recognizes a self-organized ecosystem as a sculptural entity, shifting artistic attention from fabrication to designation, stewardship, and legal recognition. Conceived as a living sculpture, the Ready-Wild borrows from the formal and conceptual frameworks of sculpture while simultaneously asserting an artistic and juridical status for wild nature. This process mobilizes contractual law, ecosystem science, drawing, and cartographic practices to establish a framework through which a natural site may be recognized as cultural heritage. In doing so, it expands the field of sculpture beyond the static object, introducing the complexity, unpredictability, and temporal dynamics of living systems into artistic discourse. Within this framework, a wild forest is not represented but designated as sculpture through a contractual act that defines its boundaries, conditions of protection, and status as an artwork. The work therefore exists simultaneously as a legal construct, an ecological reality, and an aesthetic proposition. Its form is shaped not by the artist’s hand but by ecological processes, species interactions, climatic variations, and the autonomous The Ready-Wild radically challenges the modern distinction between nature and culture. By recognizing wilderness as both ecological subject and artistic form, it proposes a redefinition of cultural production in which artistic value is no longer derived from transformation of matter, but from the recognition, preservation, and transmission of living environments. In this sense, the Ready-Wild positions art as a tool for extending cultural and legal protection to ecosystems, while inviting a renewed understanding of sculpture as a dynamic, evolving, and more-than-human practice.
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