1. The Project
Research + Exhibition Bork (2020 – ongoing)
Bork shows the inner world of trees. Hidden beneath the bark, entire books are written, whose stories only become legible when one pauses, collects, debarks and cleans the wood. Separated from the forest and trees, noted and documented, the meaning of the traces changes and you suddenly recognise familiar signs, familiar figures and shapes emerge. Patterns and insights emerge that lead us to realise that there is so much more to us than we can find in books and science. At the same time, we have to realise that we will probably fail to understand what holds the world together at its core. Bork shows the insides of trees and how humans deal with them. She reveals the secret machinations of various bugs and confronts us humans with their traces. At the same time, Bork forces us to confront nature as a creative force, questions the human monopoly on art and throws us back on ourselves, into our own innermost being.