GAIA - Planet Earth

Marjan Laaper zooms in on individual animal lives. Animals that seem frozen in time appear on the walls of the monument. The projections follow the rhythm of a winter’s day. During the day, the animals appear subtly in the monument; as the afternoon progresses, they become increasingly visible: a brown panda lying asleep against a pillar, a rhinoceros that seems to be waiting... For what? From 4 pm, as dusk falls, the Bengal eagle owl (Encounter) becomes visible. Sit or lie down on the Flying Dishmans by Atelier Van Lieshout, scattered throughout the monument, and look around you. At the light artworks and at the building, which took around 150 years to construct. The master builders who started it never saw it finished. They built for the future. That way of thinking is relevant once again today. Because: how do we treat the Earth?