2012 | Germany | Animation

LEGACY – Pairing

  • 2 mins
  • Director | Simona Koch
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Part of the installation LEGACY – Pairing / Division

Life is involuntarily part of a gigantic chain reaction, which extends back to the beginning of life. The work “Legacy” (Erbe) shows a growth structured on the assumption that every person is the offspring of two parents – a mother and a father.
When a person is born s/he is the final link in an ancestral chain, which very likely goes back to the beginning of life and includes all of man’s ancestors: prehistoric men, apes, early mammals, reptiles, primeval sea creatures through to the first single-celled organisms that form the basis of life as we know it today. As soon as a person reproduces, s/he likewise becomes an ancestor, and a part of the ancestral chain, and with each subsequent generation of descendants s/he moves deeper into the network of ancestors. As such, the work “Legacy” (Erbe) represents a model of a universal family tree.

"Legacy – Pairing“ brings the universal family tree to life by showing an endlessly ongoing process of reproduction. Two growths unite and form a new node. With every new coupling the previous node moves deeper into the network of ancestors. The animations enables us to share an evolutionary mechanism beyond our everyday perception of time and space.

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