Approximation (The Apocalypse's Many Horsemen)

digital print on 3 layers of aluminum cutout display

The sculpture is a ‘monument’ to biodiversity and ecological links between all living things and people, mixing graphical elements from various scientific contexts.

The frog, an Australian species, sitting on a human hand in a lab glove, is close to being extinct. The effort to keep the species on a functional level is done in labs, with attempts to gene edit and select fungi-resistant frogs or other organisms that could help the frogs survive. The fungi, originating in Korea, has reached Europe, Africa and Americas and is responsible for a large loss of amphibian species in the last 50 years. Even if scientists and conservationists will be able to save one iconic species, it will be a synthetic one and it will leave most of the other less photogenic amphibians extinct. Paradoxically in the time of Covid-19 crisis, the environmental global understanding might be reaching a new level, as it is obvious that an infectious organism sees no national borders, race or economical achievements. The connection between the destruction of biodiversity and the jumps of infectious organisms from animal to human hosts is now clearly established, as have the laboratory experiments to tackle the spread.