Hand cut painted aluminium, 4mm thick and sand, measurements variable

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World touring exhibition – shown in Museum Beelden Aan Zee, Scheveningen (Holland); Bursan Biennale, Korea; Mystetskyi Arsenal, Kiev (Ukraine).

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The site-specific installation contains 250 hand-cut aluminium sculptures of scientific drawings form 19th century encyclopaedias. The installation suggests a world frozen in time and with a sense of nostalgia and playfulness towards discovery, the installation brings up questions regarding our methods of creating scientific knowledge and our modes of describing evolution in nature.

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“Shown in Museum Beeldem Aan Zee, Scheveningen, Holland.”Evolution and Theory’… artist Zadok Ben-David fashions witty and playful visual puns to construct a provocative commentary on both the romance and realities of scientific discovery. With magical realism, Ben-David managed to create an almost surrealistic fictional reality, a deceit that announce the collapse of the partition between reality and dream.” Tami Katz-Freiman, Flash Art, October 1998

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Photo credit - John C Steenwinkel, Maksim Belousov