Stephen Wilks – Bottle River (Vessels)

The English artist Stephen Wilks (1964) lives and works in Berlin. ‘Bottle River(Vessels)’ can be found all across the museum floor. We can see a thousand ceramic bottles flowing along the exhibition space. The image evokes a range of associations: a river, a flood of people, pollution of the oceans, and the contradiction between the beauty of ceramics and the ubiquitous disposable plastic bottles. Do we see a reference to mass culture? Or the fragility of a single ceramic piece? The balance between nature, humanity, and our enviroment is reflected in this monumental installation by Stephen Wilks. The work shows a range of references from the Qin Terracotta warriors to Tony Cragg, Richard Long, and Henry Moore.

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