Room 7 An Open Ending

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Inevitably, the end is left open. After all, the world has not ended yet. In any case, the exhibition is not intended to prove a point, it is a multilayered narrative. And so, rather than culminating in a conclusion, it ends with a changing series of contributions by different artists.

The rules of the game: the Museum invites an artist to create content for the last room of the exhibition, and displays it for the period of a year. The artist is free to make a personal comment on the topic of the exhibition and its interpretation.

The current installation "The Substitute" is by artist Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg.

Ginsberg’s video installation was inspired by the death of the last male northern white rhinoceros – and scientists' plans to bring this extinct species “back to life” using biotechnology. A life-size projection shows the massive creature roaming in a virtual world – alternating between a strikingly lifelike and a pixelated form. These repeated transformations remind us that the apparently real rhinoceros is entirely artificial, confronting us with the question whether man-made objects can ever be a substitute for real life forms.