The artist speaks about his project in an interview at the 55th International Biennale of Art In Venice. Althamer has found the expression of an awaited spiritual flight in translucent flesh molded out of industrial plastic remains. Figures of vigilantly restful bodies are adorned with masks of real people’s faces, forming what the sculptor calls a part of the crew on spaceship planet Earth…
Althamer is one of the four Polish artists who was invited to take part in the main exhibition of the Biennale, entitled Il Palazzo Enciclopedico. Other artists from Poland are Mirosław Bałka, Jakub Julian Ziółkowski and Artur Żmijewski. The selection of over 150 artists and groups from 37 different countries is made by the curator Massimiliano Gioni.