Opening: The Vitruvian man
Mark Swysen
Artist talk: AIC ON 2016: Der perfekte Mensch
Mark Swysen
In this cathedral-like architecture, less than 2 kilometres from the Kölner Dom - house of God – I stage the parallelism perceived between the Christian dogma of a world originated from divine intervention and the scientific hypothesis of life on earth linked to the intricate and mysterious combination of water, carbon and solar energy.
At the entrance of the hall, hundreds of empty PET-bottles are suspended in a single helix suggesting a monumental DNA-chain, the genetic code of life. Yet the helix is not perfect. A number of locations flaws are obvious: mutations. The original sin, - the impossibility of mankind to perform according to the God-given moral standards -, is innate in our genetic inheritance.
