Anneke
von der Fehr

At the moment, I am concerned about nature's vulnerability and how humans put themselves in the center. In this work I have tried to highlight the ambivalence associated with this topic. Fishing has been, and still is, a very important export commodities for Norway, just as the marble is for Italy. For both countries, it is about natural resources, proud professional traditions and identity. Both occupational groups are vulnerable and are under pressure and challenged by new and more efficient technologies. This leads to overfishing and predation on limited quarry and mineral deposits. The project therefore has an environmental-political perspective, which deals with the processing and the importance of traditional natural resources, and as a concequence also nature's vulnerability. At the Arte Laguna 2019, I will exhibit the two sculptures Lingua I and II, which are based on castings of cod tongues, made in marble.