Atelier Van Lieshout

Drop Hammer House

2018

Steel
Diverse measurements

The purpose-built Drop Hammer House was created specifically for the NDSM to represent destruction, recycling and production in a circular economy. “A circular economy could be very positive: no waste, reuse of products, smart recycling, no exhaustion of energy and materials. It relates back to the concept in my work Cradle to cradle in the SlaveCity Project, where even the recycling of humans was a rational thing: humans to be used and reused without ethical concern. We celebrate destruction without a clear goal, melting objects and using wreckage to make sculpture. In doing so, we lure the dark side towards an optimistic, circular economy.”

This totem forms the centrepiece of the large-scale project The End of Everything; it is the ultimate destructor, whilst at the same time the creator of new work. The work is a machine of destruction as well as a home, providing room for the Venus/destructor to become one with the process of destruction.

Drop Hammer House (2018) was part of the following exhibition(s):
‘Living the Habitat‘, Open House, Geneva (CH), 2022
‘House of Transition’, Fokus Favoriten, Vienna (AT), 2019 – 2020
‘Ferrotopia‘, NDSM, Amsterdam (NL), 2018

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