OBSERVING BEAST, TIME, EVOLUTION

The artists of the show have worked for many years in the context of the natural sciences, research, and ecology. For the Hildesheim exhibition they have taken up topics from the museums geological collection and employed scientific methodology for their own fict ional documentations. They slip into the role of amateur scientists setting up beehives, baiting birds of paradise, or collecting ge ne data. They undertake expeditions to the edges of the earth with the verve of an explorer or archive weeds, inspects, and trees in the urba...[Read more]