Fleur van den Berg

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This work gives form to disgust, refusal, and powerlessness in the face of human violence and destructive systems. A head rises from a mass of liquid, not as an image of transcendence, but of expulsion.

This work gives physical form to the difficulty of confronting human behaviour and the violence that shapes contemporary life. A head rises from a tower-like mass of liquid, as if forced upward by its own rejection. The upward movement suggests not transcendence, but expulsion: an emergence from disgust, exhaustion, and refusal.

Made in clear cast glass, the sculpture has a cold and fluid material presence. The glass evokes water, transparency, and instability, while giving form to something abject, bodily, and difficult to contain.

The work speaks to a sense of powerlessness in the face of war, violence, and the damage human beings inflict on one another. It gives form to the difficulty of absorbing what happens in the world: the cruelty, destruction, and suffering that remain almost impossible to comprehend, yet impossible to look away from.

Factsheet

Year
2001
Edition
1
Material
Glass
Style
Figurative
Theme
Body, Society
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