“We urge you to dream wisely to find the future you most desire, to anchor it in your heart, knowing the path is chosen.”*
Rocks, stones, minerals and the metals extracted from the ore are the point of departure in my work in order to reflect on the ambivalent relationship of man towards nature. Through the tactility, seductive beauty and energetic properties of this matter I search for ways on how to overcome the separation that we as humans created with the world around us, and reconnect with it.
We live in an era where we are forced to restore the balance between man and Earth. At the same time we are constantly searching for our personal inner balance on a physical, emotional, mental and spiritual level. For this purpose we draw strength and energy from nature. We extract stones, minerals and metals from the Earth, place them into our cultural context and assign them new shapes, meanings and functions. But is this boundary that we draw between culture and nature an inherent one or one that we made up and keep alive? How do we find our place in the cosmos, replace our attitude of dominance with humbleness and use our power to contribute to the equilibrium of the planet? Can our urge for creation serve the values of healing, care and tenderness in a relationship of reciprocity instead of exploitation and damage?
Sibylle Eimermacher
Sibylle Eimermacher is born 1979 in Münster, Germany, and lives in the Netherlands now for more than twenty years. Holding a MFA from the Frank Mohr Institute in Groningen (NL) and a BFA from the AKI Academy of Art & Design in Enschede (NL), she works in the fields of sculpture, photography, video, sound, performance and artist books. Her interest in the ambivalent relationship between man and nature often leads her outside her studio, roaming the Dutch flatlands a well as untouched Scandinavian mountains. In 2021 her photobook A Guide Through Hue was published by The Eriskay Connection, wherein she translated her autobiographical background to the migratory routes of erratic rocks.
Sibylle’s work is exhibited internationally, including Undercurrent, with Johannes Eimermacher, Old Mine, Outokumpu (FIN), 2024; Dig In & Grow Up / Turnstone at abC Art Book Fair, Hangzhou (CN), 2023; Antimony at Bærum Kunsthall, Fornebu (NO), 2023; Stenvender at Enter Artspace Arhus (DK), 2022; Les Rencontres d’Arles: The 2022 Book Awards, Espace Van Gogh, Arles (FR), 2022 and Hover to Slide, Omstand, Arnhem (NL), 2018.
*Path of Empowerment – Pleiadian Wisdom for a World in Chaos, Barbara Marciniak, 2004
Exhibitions at Draakon Gallery are supported by the Cultural Endowment of Estonia, the Estonian Ministry of Culture, and Liviko AS.
