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Materials: polyester, coating
(7x) 50 x 60 cm

Exhibitions:
‘®evolution’, Botanical Gardens, Amsterdam 2-3 to 14-4-2009
Sculpture Park ‘de Uitweg’, 17-06-2012
‘Onomkeerbaar’ (Irreversible), Galerie Kunst is Kunst, Amsterdam, 23-03 to 07-04-2013

 

A colony of crab-like creatures crawls upward along the borders of our civilization.
Is evolution revolution or does it also mean degeneration of our race?
The diseases we want to fight in our ‘forever young’ society attack us from behind, like cell divisions that multiply endlessly and uncontrollably fast.
A new specimen, but one ‘in reverse’?

 

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Article in Garden & Landscape, March 2009