… to imagination, mind and a different view.
Unlimited growth, a dogma that is firmly rooted in our minds. The supposed guarantor of prosperity and the sure path to barbarism. Meaningless products, which have only a symbolic character and serve the purpose of prestige and demarcation, are produced exponentially. Not sustainable in the long term in a limited system. But exponential growth can actually be found in nature. Bacteria and tumors grow exponentially due to degenerative or pathological processes. They eventually come to a standstill due to the destruction of their own basis of life and thus fail due to their own dynamics. Limitless growth opens its mouth wider and wider and pushes us further and further to the edge of our existence.
Since October 2022, I have been dealing with the flip side of our prosperity, the collective shadow of people. As a result of this intensive examination, at some point I saw the earth as nothing more than an eroded, colorless lump from which bones emerge, some of which are already exposed and whose heart, strapped in plastic, can barely work. But it is not the earth that I see, but the human being.
The object “Konsum” is our actual state of being.
The installation “CO2” is my first attempt to give carbon dioxide a character, to make it visible and audible.
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