Edition CO2Z
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15 meters of incarnated accusation in a shiny copper pipe on planetary blue, forever circling and at the same time silently reminding us of the last drop that still carries hope. Because every single drop of the elixir of life, water, completes the measure of our responsibility. Sabine Pierick dynamizes the all-important question of humanity in the form of a copper pipe spiral and places it inexorably tightly in the crosshairs of existence on an oceanic background that iridescent blue in the dark. Z for Zero as a chance to pull the red lever to save the world with all the necessary global community consequence in responsible action?
Or maybe Z for certificate, to simply greenwash the “dirt” of ecological responsibility in the most morally cheapest way of all?
One can be pessimistic if one looks at the possible end. Sabine Pierick explores the flourishing certificate trade in an artistically ruthless way as a doomsday scenario, already down to earth. Anyone who does not pull the lever ends up in a dripping, tarry puddle of lifelessness. Her frighteningly clear formula is greenwashing = doomdating. The impetus is clear: anyone who rids themselves of their responsibility not only risks, but is responsible for the decline of our planet into irreversible rigidity.
When Robert Smithson placed his legendary 1500-meter-long earthwork "Spiral Jetty" on the edge of a salt lake in Utah in 1970, he associated the purely formal, highly energetic landmark made of black basalt stones with a spiritual power deeply connected to geology. Today, his land art icon, invisible for many decades because it was flooded, lies abandoned in the desolation of the salt desert. One inevitably feels the connection of the spiral-shaped signs through the centuries. Department: Water Risk. 54 years after Smithson, Sabine Pierick places her 15-meter-long spiral copper pipe installation completely on planetary ground like a universal memorial, thereby mapping the human sphere of responsibility worldwide in one fell swoop.
Still an oasis or already on the way to becoming a desert? The CO2-Z spiral challenges the mind to focus and at the same time to expand perception ruthlessly and independently. When everything is at stake, the signs must be compelling. More than ever as the darkness increases.
