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Summerhall,Edinburgh
Ontroerend Goed’s da
ring reveal conjures the image of an empty world and concentrates the intellect on the fragility of human existenceOne of the things I love about the Belgian company Ontroerend Goed is that every piece they make is different. They’ve always dared to lift risks – some of which pay off and some of which definitely don’t. That’s just as it should be, and in this latest piece they lift the risk of trying to fetch us to contemplate the unimaginable: a world in which every human has vanished. Except, and as we trundle blindly towards environmental catastrophe and possible nuclear catastrophe,it’s not as unimaginable as we’d like to think. Continue reading...

Source: theguardian.com

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