In the Anthropocene, humanity's relationship to the planet — and to the countless other species with which it shares it — has become impossible to ignore. This thesis asks what role contemporary art can play in that reckoning: not simply depicting ecological crisis, but actively reshaping how we understand our place within what it calls a "living tangle" — an interconnected, interdependent web of human and more-than-human life. Through a close reading of ten contemporary artworks, paired across five thematic chapters, the research traces how artists have used ecological thinking, care, and collaboration to imagine new forms of coexistence with the natural world.