Press Release
Untilled (Liegender Frauenakt) is a sculptural collaboration between human and insect. The work marries a concrete sculpture of a liegender Frauenakt (reclining female nude) with a self-generating natural system—a living beehive—that progressively covers the figure’s head. Untilled makes sly reference to the concepts of the “hive mentality,” or collective thought process, and self-organization. Mutating according to the life cycle of the bee colony and codependent on its environment, Untilled reimagines the notion of sculpture; rather than an inanimate object to be seen, it is a living organism to be experienced.
