Curator: Ruben Kohn

In the article “Dust Breeding”, based on Marcel Duchamp’s work from 1920, Jean Baudrillard wrote: “Our reality has become experimental. Without destiny, modern man is left with an endless experimentation of himself.” He continues with a quotation from Walter Benjamin, “While humanity was once according to Homer an object of contemplation for the Gods, it has now become a contemplation of itself. Its own alienation has reached such a degree that humanity’s own destruction becomes a first rate aesthetic sensation.”

Fracture, disintegration, search, loss, change, tearing and decay can be seen in Meira’s work, but more than all that one sees the battle between despair and hope. This is a battle with no winners. This is sculptural evidence of its existence. This is her monument to the moment when information, transformation, catastrophe and speculation cause us to see in the sculpture, as in the human figure, the difficulties of man, his contemporary representation, his indecision and nakedness.