Biological history. Living material as the material of history
Theme guided tour

  • Biological history. Living material as the material of history

    Min Jeng Seo, "Remains", photo by B. Stawiarski

A theme guided tour through the “Lest The Two Seas Meet” exhibition.

The history talks about depersonalized human masses. Even if a particular name appears, it is in the context of an event that has a broader meaning. A character is a tool to achieve some goal. An individual existence is unimportant, especially a bodily one. The objects that any human being creates attack him or her on the most fundamental, the biological dimension of their being. After all, war is about pain, it is about bloodshed and death – not the mass deaths, but the death of each individual in the most literal, biological sense, a big factory that processes living material. It is crucial for us to remember that this material is not only a human one. The humans force the other living beings to participate in their endeavors, damaging the other organisms and the environment. The history violates the natural cycle. We will try to trace back the origins of all of the abovementioned issues, searching for the proofs of the materiality of death.