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Apis Regina - Osmose
As part of her exhibitions, Bärbel Rothhaar has built several bee boxes out of glass or equipped with windows, in order to allow visitors to watch the bees working on art objects.
One of these installations was part of the group exhibition “Osmosis” which took place in a Berlin garden area in 2007. Central to all the artistic concepts was a synthesis of art and nature under the conditions of a city.
The garden house of the artist was turned into a bee laboratory which allowed the visitors to closely watch an experimental installation of the artist for the duration of the exhibition. Inside a bee show case a wax cast of the artist´s face was covered with honeycomb by the bees. A handwritten dream diary was used as a background of the wax face. During the six weeks of the exhibition, the paper was partially eaten and substituted by honeycomb.
This work is characterised by its significant questioning of the boundaries between private and public space. If we define a bee colony as a superorganism, the view into the hive becomes as intimate as a view into a human body. Opening up its private space and exhibiting its intimate records are the equivalent of an artistic self-experiment. Part of the own intimate sphere is opened up for public view and thus altered in the process. |
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