2006

Nature in contemporary society is an object of utility in everyday life. It‘s banal, unconspicious and it more and more appears to become an uncertain background from which mankind is irresistibly disconnecting itself.
Simultaneously nature is tranformed into an aesthetical and with mental images associated artefact the more we apart from it. In public urban spaces the staging of nature reveals its function as a projection screen for human aspiration and sentimental imaginations.

In zoological gardens the nonnatural surrounding, the constructed room, assimilates the animal and transfers it into a sample of nature. The creature appears alienated and disconnected from its original existence. In this context the animal assumes the shape of a remote exhibit; a preserved subject without any reference to real life. The artificial becomes its natural environment and humanisation and reification take place concurrently. The residing animal exists far away from its primal idea. The room redefines the animal being – the human concept and idea of nature, its signification and future, become questionable.