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THE RIBOSE CHAIN, 2018 MIXED MEDIA (3D-PRINTING IN BLACK PET) 118X31.4 IN. | 300X80 CM.
Vision: With these gigantic polymers I ensure a large stock of ribose. Ribose is a biological five-ring that we
find in our genetic material as well as in the cellular fuel molecule ATP. In my view, we are able to use this
INVITED ARTIST WHITE BLOSSOM, 2020 TEXTILE ART (BULGUM, SEWING BY HAND) 196X19.6 IN. | 500X50 CM.
ribose in both repair and production mechanisms of DNA and in all kinds of energy-converting processes in
our eco-robotics.
Vision: I recreate nature by recycling and assembling dead sea anemones and breathing new life into it
through the process of regeneration. Also, thanks to visible surgery, this semi-organic tissue can be present
as an aerophyte in, on and around human structures.
YELLOW BLOSSOM, 2019 TEXTILE ART 118X19.6 IN. | 300X50 CM.
Vision: As an artist I recycle discarded materials of our consumer society and with help of biological
processes of regeneration and human techniques of assembly, I create new climbing plants with a beautiful
yellow blossom. Thus I restore nature where it is affected or disappeared by humans.
MILEEN MALBRAIN

Lives and works in Leuven, Belgium
http://www.artbymileen.weebly.com

As an artist, I look for solutions to the alarming fact that humans
play a too dominant role in their habitat, causing him to destroy his
own biosphere. The earth is warming up and the land, with all life
on it, is threatened by the sea. Plastic and poison accumulate in the
soil, plants and animals and later resurface in the human food chain.
Biodiversity is declining drastically all over the world and certain
species are in danger of disappearing completely. The question I ask
myself is: “Will humans be the first living species to cause their own
extinction?” My artistic starting point is a new world in which man
comes to live in full symbiosis with numerous organisms and no longer
exploits them. This symbiosis arises from cooperative behavior, on
the one hand exchanging biological techniques such as regeneration,
recovery, auto reproduction, mimicry, dormancy and germination
and on the other hand recycling, assembly, genetic modification and
cloning techniques, surgery and robotics. For example, other animal
species will develop molting behavior and shed their skin; man no provided with photosynthesizing unicellular organisms, ATP-rich
longer has to kill these animals. Many living organisms will also use seeds, meristematic cell preparations, vitamin fruits, magnesium
mimicry, so that one organism will take over the design from another. and iron-containing aerophytes, high-quality fibers and protein-rich
New crystalline or amorphous structures, composite materials and tissues, desalinating micro-organisms, so there is oxygen, water,
even special alloys are found in calcified, cornified or wooded parts energy and nutrients for the entire ecosystem. In this way I restore
of living organisms. Man recycles, regenerates and assembles new nature where it has been affected by man or has disappeared around
creatures from dead plants and animals, which safeguards and many buildings and roads. Hybrids emerge with an ambiguous
even increases biodiversity. In many air and space laboratories are appearance; are they the result of human or natural processes?

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