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VITAL PUMPING MACHINES, 2020 DIGITAL PRINTING ON ALUMINUM 17.7X23.6 IN. | 45X60 CM.
INVITED ARTIST FATAL NETS #2, 2020 DIGITAL PRINTING ON ALUMINUM DIGITAL 23.6X23.6 IN. | 60X60 CM.
SERIES DISARRANGED LANDSCAPES MARE #3, 2020 DIGITAL PRINTING ON ALUMINUM 17.7X23.6 IN. | 45X60 CM.

CHRISTEL SOBKE

Lives and works in Berlin, Germany
http://art-christel-sobke.de/

Since the beginning of my career, turning to topics like the
rapid changes in our living space has been very important
to me. A very early environmental picture allowed me
to study art and design at the Niederrhein University of
Applied Sciences. I found maps of the North Sea coast in
a public library. By chance I came across historical maps
of around 1800 from the coast of northern Germany and
Denmark. The changes to today’s coastline caught the eye
and I suddenly became very aware that our little planet was
never and never would be the same. We had an extremely
dry hot summer at that point. We started watering the trees
in the streets.

Of course we were happy to do that. But I started to watch
the following years more closely. There had been more and
more dry summers and the heat increased. I began to think
about my water consumption. There were also the first
reports of climate change. As an artist, I wanted to make my
contribution, but not by simply depicting what has changed,
but rather by showing the changeability, raising awareness
that nothing is static but subject to change.
How far was man responsible for this? I painted trilogies
and asked the question, where are we going, are we going
in the negative or the positive direction, that one can
destroy, but also that something can be preserved.

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