Troglodyte

2018

Fiberglass
Diverse measurements

The Troglodyte is a functional work of art that provides a changing room, toilet and shelter for the departure point for sailing in the municipality of Neerpelt. At the same time it is also a shelter in the most original sense of the word, an imaginary cave house that takes people back to their origins. The work fits into a long tradition of underground dwellings, which have provided human housing for centuries. But the work of art also refers to the prehuman time, to the origin: to the water that seeps through the landscape, through centuries and ice ages slowly grinding the river into the landscape, the river on which man now navigates, sails, relaxes. It is also reminiscent of boulders that nature has laid down in the landscape, the Hunebeds and Megaliths of early humans.

Commission
Location: Neerpelt (BE)