The work group titled "Daily News Digest" comprises five sculptures standing on the ground. Overall, all the figures have something to do with digestion. There is this one sculpture consisting of two united halves that remain connected solely with the help of two thick, strong rubber bands. One half bears the impression of a belly button, while on the other side is the impression of an anus. The two parts are assembled like a bun and symbolically address the process of food intake and digestion. The belly button refers to the origin and the previous nourishment of the new organism in the mother's womb. Now the sculpture lies "unplugged" with a healed navel. Most recognizable in the group of sculptures are the wisdom teeth, to which the tooth sculptures align in shape. They are the third molars, serving as the natural life insurance of ancient people. I had never developed wisdom teeth in my dentition and therefore belong to the "modern humans." This amused me so much that I created these oversized teeth as compensation, which can also be exposed to the weather outside. They stand on their own naked roots. The chunky legs create a stark contrast to the delicate tripod legs of the blood-red ‘tower’, bending under its weight. The tower has a tongue tip on top and a colorful umbilical cord incorporated on the front. In the womb, the umbilical cord replaces the digestive tract before birth. With a strand of twisted cords similar to a rope, the work once again provides a kind of conduit leading to nowhere. Stephen Hawking writes in his book The Universe in a Nutshell about the practicality of the universe not being two-dimensional because, otherwise, due to the digestive tract, we would split into two halves as it runs completely through us. Even without science, we know very well what comes out in the end when our body takes in food, which is why the group of sculptures concludes with the anus in the sculptural interpretation of thoughts about digestion. It serves as the gateway to excretion, the end of the journey, so to speak.


Daily News Digest

2021

group of five sculptures

mixed media

Exhibition view Diploma 2021 Hochschule für Bildende Künste Dresden

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