About

A world that can be explained even with bad reasons is a familiar world” (Camus). Earth contains many of those worlds, but it is still only one.

Both an object of contemplation as well as a contained micro environment, NO LACK OF VOID is a mixed-media sculpture and freestanding Kabinett that addresses this simultaneous one but twofold existence: living whole as a vessel in space, sphere and receptacle. The Kabinett plays with perceptions of scale, absurdity, and universality to invite thinking both outside and inside the box.

The simultaneity is made visible by a representation of a wooded space — where trees have been sawed down and milled only to be transformed back into trees – and explores the shifting practices, inherent absurdities, and blatant excuses that continue to shape the debates about extraction and the climate emergency.

Amidst accelerating loss of biodiversity, younger generations have sought a paradigm shift – instead of aspiring for profits, they desire to save the world. Meanwhile, many continue to do nothing or choose a single outlet with which to reconcile the void where care should be.

Accompanied by a short poem based on Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot , the nonsensical reluctance and metaphysical anguish of the human condition is embraced, adopting the play’s premise of waiting near a seemingly arbitrary and unidentified tree.

To not see the wood from the trees is an idiom that translates to focussing on minute details of an issue or problem yet failing to grasp the bigger picture. With no lack of void, one continues to toil when there is nothing else to do but wait.

But waiting for what?