ICH BIN MIT DIR | I AM WITH YOU, Berlin 2014 (urine, resin, 0.5 liter Coca Cola bottle, gilded wooden chair from Köpenick castle in Berlin, Germany), Knock Knock 2014, Skulpturarena öst, Oslo

The presented art work titled, Ich bin mit dir, allegorises a critical reference to human mankind as the crown of creation. It consists of a 0.5 liter Coca Cola bottle filled with urine casted in resin. The 27x27 cm block of resin is seated on a gilded wooden chair which was part of the original interieur of Köpenick castle in Berlin, Germany.

Ich bin mit dir is an individualized antithetic readymade, plastic - organic, a memorial of a preserved moment and a metaphor in itself. The work refers to the resolution or the "End of Humanism", an expression which was characterized by british former neoliberal philosopher John Nicholas Gray in his book 'Straw Dogs: Thoughts on Humans and Other Animals'. In his debate Gray questions human mankind as being the crown of creation. Gray defines humanism as a religious ideology and calls it superstition.

"Those who struggle to change the world see themselves as noble, even tragic figures. Yet most of those who work for world betterment are not rebels against the scheme of things. They seek consolation for a truth they are too weak to bear. At bottom, their faith that the world can be transformed by human will is a denial of their own mortality."

John Nicholas Gray, 'Straw Dogs: Thoughts on Humans and Other Animals'