At the center of Maria Loboda's installation is her film "The Machine" - it is the artist's first film. The main role is played by an artesian well that gushes without technical assistance. In the machine age, these wells receive special attention. They naturally create a "water theater" that otherwise could only be produced with great mechanical effort. Curiously, such a fountain also stands in the industrially reshaped landscape of the Messel Pit. Loboda's film describes a fantastic journey from Messel and the age of the Eocene, the "dawn", 50 million years ago, through 18th and 19th century machines to research laboratories.
31 March to 16 July 2023
