WIND OF CHANGE

3D printing, sand, blower, glass, white-painted wood, lighting. This work uses an image inspired by the science fiction film "Planet of the Apes," where at the end of the film, the Statue of Liberty is revealed buried under the sand with its hand sticking out. Inside the glass container, the hand of the Statue of Liberty holding a torch, printed in plastic at a factory in China, is placed. The wind creates a constant sandstorm that never settles, with the sand gradually wearing down the statue as if through a sandblasting process.

The work weaves symbolic elements between the forces acting in contemporary geopolitics over the last century and a quarter, touching on slow yet consistent processes borrowed from nature into an artificial symbolic-metaphorical world. The name of the work, like the song by the Scorpions, written in 1989 and serving as the soundtrack for the collapse of the Soviet Union and the fall of the Berlin Wall for many young people around the world at the time, was claimed in 2020 by a New Yorker investigator to have been written by the American CIA as part of a psychological warfare effort by the West against the East or the U.S. against communism, aiming to change the public opinion of young people in the East in general and East Germany in particular.