The installation consists of two parts, a big sculptural triptych on a patch of terrain and traces of a slain eagle on another patch.
The work is an approach to Science Fiction storytelling, instead of a classical narration through the perspective of one single cis-male hero, the story is told through an installation of objects seemingly stemming of another world.
The work is directly referencing and named after the famous Greek Myth of Prometheus, Ridley Scotts prequel to the Alien Series and Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. In the Myth of Prometheus, the titan creates humanity out of claysculptures and steals the fire from the gods for them, betraying the gods for his own creation. In Ridley Scotts Movie «Prometheus» is the Name of the Spaceship a crew of humans use to search for their creators on a distant planet. In Frankenstein, which is considered to be the first science-fiction novel, the young swiss scientist Victor Frankenstein is able to create an artificial humanoid person, which eventually turns evil because of the rejection it recieves from his creator and all of humanity.
Using the potential of science fiction as a form of storytelling that disrupts normative categories and offers alternative visions of social and technological futures, the work explores creator-creation relationships and the complex entanglements of culture, science, power and technology within.
When brought into the exhibitionspace this sort of manifested Science Fiction blurs the boundaries between the real and the imaginary, softly challenging the notion of a fixed and stable reality.
Exhibition View of the Duoexhibition «Cyclic Sensations» at the Marytwo in Lucerne
