Julius von Bismarck OOOSB (Meteorite Pheasants), 2024

The work is from Julius von Bismarck's series titled OOOSB, which presses animals, plants and vestiges of civilization into a mass of wood shavings using heavy industrial compression techniques. The artist presses worlds in which the history of the material merges with that of the pictorial worlds into the panels.

The title, OOOSB, is a play on the acronym of Oriented Strand Board, OSB, a cheap building material, and the post-humanist concept of object-orientated ontology, OOO. OOO describes humans, non-humans and immaterial constructs, for instance concepts, as objects that are only partially perceptible due to the limits of perception. The underlying hypothesis that every object has its own reality, independent of humans, allows for a conception of existence in which human supremacy is precarious.