Florian Claar

2008

Mixed Media 

3.6m x 1.6m x 2.4m

Sculpture Gallery Hashimoto, Tokyo / Japan

Postcards from Eden" is the second installation based on a novel by Stanislaw Lem. In his book "Eden", Lem describes the travels and discoveries of three astronauts who accidentally land on an undiscovered planet that is completely alien to them. They encounter landscapes, organisms, machines, industrial plants, and a civilization that bears no resemblance to anything in their field of experience. Trying to make sense of what they see, become a constant cycle of developing new theories and dismissing them again. After repairing their ship, they leave this world without finding out anything about its workings.