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Lawrence Malstaf - Shrink (2010)

DD: What do you enjoy about exhibiting the human animal as a living artwork? Malstaff: The reasons I do the things I do are quite abstract. Obviously, this work has a certain energy to it but it’s only when the visitor comes in to see it that it gets a narrative. Chiefly, it’s about adaptation, and how that works in what you called the human animal. I am fascinated by the fact that our human nature is always about adapting to new environments, but also that somewhere along the line we started to adapt the environment itself rather than ourselves, with the industrial age and so on. Maybe in a couple of thousand years we will completely lose this ability for adaptation, and we will actually physically make something if we feel the need to ‘adapt’ rather than let nature simply change us.

Lawrence Malstaf - Nemo Observatorium (2002)