Izaak Zwartjes

At his final graduation exhibition, Zwartjes impressed the audience with his installation The Laboratory Of Life about a post-apocalyptic world in which science, religion, and art come together.

Zwartjes sees these carefully assembled attributes, such as a shopping cart, a wooden barrel, old blankets and a gas mask, as the leftover products of a modern society in which people often feel lost.

The installation depicts an apocalyptic tale of a degenerated tribe of cloned beings, which wanders through a desolate landscape in search of deliverance and rebirth.

On the one hand the installation is a physical place, the manifestations of a mythological journey generated in the mind of Izaak Zwartjes.

[1] In October 2011 Izaak Zwartjes made a pilgrimage from Leiden to Venray on a self-made car with a small engine.