Nowadays you don’t have to take drugs anymore to get into a visual trip; “Snakes knows it’s yoga” is an exhibition of Swedish artist Nathalie Djurberg in the Booijmans van Beuningen museum that shows us the bizarre and surrealistic world of cliché fairy tales in a battle field of death, sex and violence.
It evokes a range of emotions that you don’t easily access next to each other; abomination close to fascination and ugliness close to beauty. Bright neon light shines on whimsical creatures molded out of clay and videos of the creatures interacting in a bizarre eclectic fantasy world are projected in the space around it. If you’re looking for immediate inspiration that wakes you up from slumbering through the days this will most definitely work.
Next to Djurnberg’s exhibition you also could enjoy the peanut butter platform (or floor) by Willem T. Schippers and the ‘Beauty in science’; extreme close ups of molecules, bacteria and other micro/macro creatures. The peanut butter floor wasn’t so much a visual experience as a smelly one as well. The building itself also had some beautiful angles I couldn’t get passed without making a photograph.
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