Josh Kline’s artistic production aims to highlight the connection between individuals and larger systems such as the organization of work, technological automation, climate change, and the failure of democratic systems. Interested in the way in which these phenomena inform humanity’s experiences and perspectives, influencing the present as well as the near future, the artist uses a variety of media to elaborate reflections and imagine destinies. Therefore, rather than representing a reference model, science fiction is a way of approaching reality and formulating an idea. Video and film are the starting points for all the variations of the artist’s work, including sculpture, made through a process of editing of three-dimensional scans that leads to the 3D printing of autonomous objects. The film Adaptation (2019-2021) is the final part of Kline’s larger Climate Change project. Set in New York in the mid-21st century, it shows a city submerged by the waters due to rising seas, profoundly marked by climate change, global warming and the most extreme consequences of nationalism and neoliberal capitalism. Adaptation is a snapshot of day-to-day life for a group of working people whose job brings them into this transformed future Manhattan. They inhabit a new normal and their human presence, inserted in this scenario, directly addresses the anxieties of our present, at the same time outlining the upsetting and realistic portrait of a possible future.