Janaina Tschäpe at Tokyo Wonder Site.

Tschäpe often uses her own body in her photos and video performances, while water is the key and potent element that she works with to reconstruct imaginary evolutionary processes.

The search for the connections between the life of the removed evolutionary past and the contemporary humans seems to to be at the crux of the show. Another three screen projection creates an Edenic scene, where complex, imaginary creatures are being born in a forest, out of a balloons pulsating with life, growing and eventually exploding to life. Water in the form of the rain, waterfall and river is constantly flowing, accompanied by powerful, natural sounds. In the water sits the power of the Universe. And not surprisingly, at the entrance to the exhibit, one finds an excerpt from Italo Calvino, who is also know for his sci-fi writing, referring to and questioning the basic concept of scientific theories. The quotation from the novel entitled T Zero states that the human blood and the original seas have analogous compositions, illuminating somewhat the artist’s fascination with water.

One of the screening rooms is furnished with the bean pillows to nest in and enjoy the hunting pictures and listen to the sounds of “nature”, Tschäpe’s world.