"Life Cycle No. 2" is a part of a serie consisting
of three multi channel video installations, where
the artists wants to transmit an idea about
evolution. A kind of evolution as a continuous
genetic adaption of organisms and species but in a
process of mutation. The artist is presenting a
disturbed evolution, where the end has nothing to
do with the beginning.
One of the most important topic of Joas Nebe is
the human being, his communication and his
interaction with the world around him, and how the
humans are altering that one.
He always says from the beginning of his career as
an artist, he was fascinated by art works with a
hidden message. And that is what he is doing
through his art: in his pieces we will rarely find
a human figure although is his main subject in his
art work.
Joas Nebe will never tell you directly through his
art what he wants to tell you. He will challenge
you to reflect. At the same time he will propose a
topic that involve everyone, because he is
doubting everything that is too much accepted by
the majority. He wants to bring the spectator to
another level, above the right or the bad
thinking. Joas Nebe will just propose an idea and
we as a receiver, are responsible to answer
ourselves."
(art historian Anna Corpas: Introduction to Life
Cycle series for Pop Up Kino Video Festival 2016)
Evolution as the continuous genetic adaptation of
organisms and species to the environment by the
integrating agencies of selection, hybridization,
imbreeding and mutation is turned upside down by
combining it with the idea of the food chain,
especially when you come up with the process of
metamorphosis or transformation at the end. That
means in order to say it in one word, turning a
bug into a seagull. The Life Cycle series consists
of three multi channel video installations which
are composed to be screened in one room, two of
them are supposed to be enacted on the room’s
walls, the third on the ceiling.
shown at:
2019, THE REJECTS, coldbench, UK, , catalog
2017, JOAS NEBE: VIDEO WORKS ON NATURE, 16:9
Gallery, UTLC Gallery, Michigan, USA
2016, POP UP KINO VIDEO FESTIVAL, Invited Artist,
Berlin, Germany
2016, GAPE 09, Plateau Gallery, Berlin, Germany