Equilibrist

2012

Bronze
500 x 300 x 700 cm

Equilibrist, which is placed in front of a shopping mall in Malmo, Sweden, represents a mass of human shapes clinging on to boxes, packages, consumer goods, holding on for dear live, and struggling to keep their balance in the process. It symbolises humanities urge to consume, as well as the limitations it meets whilst striving to achieve this goal. The design predates the current economic crisis, and reflects on the struggle, the precarious balance between ambitions and prosperity on the one hand and the fall which this can bring about on the other hand. This applies both to the microlevel of the individual, the macrolevel of our economic system and the metalevel of society as a whole.