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An exhibition dealing with artist run communities, large scale deep sea communication cables encountering curious sharks, Helena van Doeveren, the human touch and the exhibition Fiberglass Eels brings together a selection of recent works by Sam Hersbach. For this presentation, Hersbach has created an interrelated body of work in which deep-sea submarine communication cables recur alongside floral elements, human and non-human fantastical figures, drones (both those acquired by the Dutch government and consumer drones), and historical references that include portraits. Cultural spaces, such as meeting rooms of both institutions that provide art subsidies and of self-run artist initiatives, appear next to microbes, systems of measurement and scale, submarines colliding beneath the surface, and restless catfish.
The characters, narrative elements, and references in Hersbach’s works start at a material base. Recently, Hersbach has conducted research into creating his own pigments, which he…
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An exhibition dealing with artist run communities, large scale deep sea communication cables encountering curious sharks, Helena van Doeveren, the human touch and the exhibition Fiberglass Eels brings together a selection of recent works by Sam Hersbach. For this presentation, Hersbach has created an interrelated body of work in which deep-sea submarine communication cables recur alongside floral elements, human and non-human fantastical figures, drones (both those acquired by the Dutch government and consumer drones), and historical references that include portraits. Cultural spaces, such as meeting rooms of both institutions that provide art subsidies and of self-run artist initiatives, appear next to microbes, systems of measurement and scale, submarines colliding beneath the surface, and restless catfish.
The characters, narrative elements, and references in Hersbach’s works start at a material base. Recently, Hersbach has conducted research into creating his own pigments, which he…


























































