Preta Wool Bag

Arctic Charade: print on canvas, embroidery, acrylics, leather, sequins, mixed technique

This series of works, made from summer 2017 onwards, takes the viewer into a beautiful, cheerful world of optimism, and human daring and entrepreneurial spirit.

We see fresh, young acrobats, who use nature unapologetically as a backdrop for their bravado. Preta Wolzak makes them heroes, overloaded with splendor and glamour, executed in rich materials. But there is also a dark side to her story.

Beneath the surface, Preta Wolzak depicts the indignation she feels about the way in which humans treat the globe. Tourism and raw material extraction form dark clouds over the still largely untouched areas, which are teetering under the effects of climate change.

The acrobats stand for the foolishness of man, who ruins his environment. He turns the world into a big amusement park, stretching to the last untouched areas of our planet: the North and South Poles. At the same time, we feel an exciting situation here in which they have ended up on an ice floe.