‘pandemic nightmare’, shown for the first
time at Spektrale 5, Luckau-Germany, 2012
Destructive elements always had been a fascination for
mankind. If you regard for example atomic explosions, demolition of buildings,
blasts, thunderstorms, volcanic eruptions, geysers, avalanches, icy rains,
hale, tsunamis, or tornados, the images created by this powerful violence always
have their own aesthetic and beauty.
But there are also some very small silent microcosmic
and thus invisible elements, which are looking quite beautiful under a
microscope, but are able to kill millions of human beings - the viruses.
Due to the globalization and the increasing aerial
traffic, epidemies can be spread out all over the world and become a pandemic
quite quickly. The last waves of epidemics showed us that we almost can’t
preview the development of the further movements and mutations of the viruses.
Only eight years later, reality caught up with us in 2020!
What I’d like to show is the
beauty and variety of these tiny killers, shown by an installation of a simple metal
bed with different designed viruses (from 15 until 20 cm in the average)
hanging over it just like a firmament of stars.
Not only the diseases caused by
the global movement are dangerous, there is still the worldwide problem of HIV,
whose deadly process many people started to forget, because there are now effective
medicaments on the market which in reality only prologue the life for some more
years.
In general medicaments against diseases
are still unaffordable for most of the people in the poor countries any
statistically, worldwide much more people die by diseases than by wars.
The pharma-industries mostly are
not very interested in the scientific investigation of some tropical diseases,
because they won’t make enough profit in the so-called “third world” and these non-investigated
viruses just go on killing a hight rate of human beings.
My installation will also show the
human threat in a metaphoric way because loveliness always bears a certain
potential of destruction in itself.
