What to Do with a Thousand Years?
Tear Extractors
Tincture Basin
2022
Shown at the Kiefer Hablitzel │Göhner Art Prize 2022, Hall 1.1, Basel Fair
Anita Mucolli is a proponent of sophisticated and immersive installations. In What To Do With A Thousand Years? she explores the cryopreservation of the human body, particularly bodily fluids such as blood and tears. Her installation invites us to reflect on the concept of time, both in terms of its finiteness on the scale of a human life, as well as in relation to its infinite potential, when viewed approached from the perspective of the sciences or that of intellectuality. The neo-futuristic aesthetic is reminiscent of a science-fiction scenario: the visitors are confronted with a kind of waiting room of a laboratory where the bodies of patients prepare to be frozen for a thousand years. Even if the installation may seem sterile at first glance, it is nonetheless laced with clues that reveal a poetic look at the concept of eternity.
→ Press Release Kiefer Hablitzel │ Göhner Art Prize 2022
