The Explorers

Works are artistic investigations and exercises in imagination involving vessels and structures that inhabit this contradictory and complex world and its possible futures, in which we humans are often simultaneously alienated from nature and entirely dependent upon it. Some works address the exploitation of natural resources and its consequences, while others explore adaptation, survival, and the possibility of escape in the face of change.

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The works make room for play, imagination, utopia, and impossible ideas. Scientific premises are transformed into structures and fictional technologies that allow reality to be viewed from a slight distance—and perhaps seen differently. By pushing social, environmental, scientific, and technological ideas beyond their practical limits, the works may reveal contradictions embedded in the way humans inhabit and transform the natural world.

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Explorers can transform an abstract problem or a story into something with form, scale, and physical presence. Construction itself becomes a way of thinking: each work is an attempt to explore where it leads when an idea, a dream, or just a thought is given physical form.

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Alongside destruction and survival, the Explorers’ works therefore also contain curiosity and the imagining of possibilities. Although the works deal with serious and, at times, dark subjects, their making is grounded in play, the pleasure of building by hand, and the freedom to imagine worlds.

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The interpretation of the message and ideas behind each Explorer is left to the viewer.