Musculo-vegetal - Chiel Lubbers

About

As a visual artist, Chiel Lubber’s motivation is built upon the embodied experience of an ‘inner-act’. This arises within the dynamic interplay between two entities and is distinguished by a bodily-felt affect. It serves as a means to capture his resonance with rippled structures in the natural and agricultural landscape.

Musculo-vegetal is a herbarium series embodying analogous research, delving into the parallels between fibers in plants and human muscle tissues. Through the intricate processes of dissecting, fermenting, and positioning fibers, Chiel’s artworks reveal the microscopic and macroscopic anatomical tissues of the abstracted aspects of our intimate anatomy. The essence of Musculo-vegetal lies in its aim to induce a meditative state, encouraging viewers to reflect on the life forms that constitute our bodies. It conveys the fundamental concept that we are resonant beings intricately intertwined with cosmic currents.