SUPERFLEX — Every End is A New Beginning

NT$592,000 ／ Limited to 5

• Archival ink print on Hahnemühle fine art baryta 325g. 60 × 72 cm each (unframed), edition of 5 + 1 AP, 2021.
• Collector’s value €16,000; NT$ locked at launch-day exchange rate and does not fluctuate.
• Includes Certificate of Authenticity and two Full-Access Passes to Sonic Shaman.
• International shipping is at the collector’s expense.

Five Editions

The work exists as a set of five editions (I–V), each composed of three photographs.

About Every End is A New Beginning

The photographic work Every End Is A New Beginning includes images of the world’s youngest island, Hunga Tonga, in the South Pacific, as well as magnifications of a single grain of sand collected there. The microscopic images depict what appears to be a barren landscape; devoid of human presence, they appear like a memory of the early history of our planet, or a glimpse into a future era beyond us. Hunga Tonga itself has since disappeared beneath the ocean, making the images of the island records of a landscape that no longer exists.

Humans have roamed this planet for a mere 300,000 years — less than 0.01 % of the Earth’s history. During our relatively short stay, we have managed to create a footprint on the entire ecosystem comparable to that of major natural disasters such as volcanic eruptions, earthquakes and meteor impacts.

A dystopian future seems to approach as the end of the human era draws nearer. But life on Earth has transgressed limits and redefined itself again and again, and will most likely do so in a post-human era, even as large areas of land are submerged by rising seas.

The work is one outcome of SUPERFLEX’s expedition to Hunga Tonga aboard the ship Dardanella in 2018 as part of a larger research project, Deep Sea Minding, commissioned by TBA21-Academy under the programme The Current.

About SUPERFLEX

Founded in 1993 in Copenhagen by Jakob Fenger, Bjørnstjerne Christiansen and Rasmus Nielsen, SUPERFLEX describes their works as “tools” — instruments deployed across design, film, sculpture, public commissions and cross-disciplinary collaboration to engage with economic structures, energy politics, ecological systems and post-Anthropocene imaginaries. Their works are held in the collections of Centre Pompidou, Tate Modern, SFMOMA, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, and other major institutions worldwide.