Juxtapoz Magazine – Cathrin Hoffmann: Human Hand For Scale
The stop of the globe is not the stop of the entire world. Human beings have existed on Earth for just a fraction of a fraction of a fraction of its existence the world will go on to rotate on its axis extensive just after we Homo sapiens sapiens have incinerated ourselves as a result of some horrific, however statistically insignificant rapture of our very own building. Just after the earth moves underneath our toes and the sky tumbles down, who or what will enjoy our tunes, poems, and pictures about it? It is a fever aspiration, a fool’s fantasy, to latch onto any just one earthling’s intrinsic value when they were nothing just a temporary rewind or rapidly-forward into the earlier or future.
With Human Hand for Scale, Cathrin Hoffmann’s 1st solo exhibition with Nicodim, the artist casts herself in the position of upcoming anthropologist, measuring