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Episode 19: The Third Wave

2021 Competition entry

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Helena De Waal

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Ceramic
60 x 20 x 23 cm
R5 500
Description:
“Episode 19: The Third Wave” encapsulates an episode in our life that deals with the actuality of the Covid-19 pandemic. This tongue-in-cheek sculpture has Bart Simpson as the main character or antagonist and just like the show “The Simpsons”, becomes a satirical depiction of the notions around the virus and the vaccinations. The whole situation around the pandemic and especially the vaccinations is becoming somewhat of a comic show: it seems that almost everyone graduated as a virologist from Google or perhaps even some college in Springfield. Or anti-vaxxers are getting the same rebellious attitude at the antagonist when they are protesting these vaccines because they are not “lab rats”. To further contribute to the comic show conspiracy theories is making the rounds and other is against it for religious reasons. It seems like people are fighting more against each other than against the virus making the virus the protagonist.

This artwork is not in any way taking a side, but merely depicting the bizarre reality of the human condition. Depicting Bart with his badge “Springfield Vaccination Day” is evoking a comment on this comical situation. And if Bart refuses to get vaccinated, maybe his lab rat would take his chances.

Ceramic

Detail
Tags

Helena De Waal

Details:
Unclear
Ceramic
60 x 20 x 23 cm
R5 500

Description:
“Episode 19: The Third Wave” encapsulates an episode in our life that deals with the actuality of the Covid-19 pandemic. This tongue-in-cheek sculpture has Bart Simpson as the main character or antagonist and just like the show “The Simpsons”, becomes a satirical depiction of the notions around the virus and the vaccinations. The whole situation around the pandemic and especially the vaccinations is becoming somewhat of a comic show: it seems that almost everyone graduated as a virologist from Google or perhaps even some college in Springfield. Or anti-vaxxers are getting the same rebellious attitude at the antagonist when they are protesting these vaccines because they are not “lab rats”. To further contribute to the comic show conspiracy theories is making the rounds and other is against it for religious reasons. It seems like people are fighting more against each other than against the virus making the virus the protagonist.

This artwork is not in any way taking a side, but merely depicting the bizarre reality of the human condition. Depicting Bart with his badge “Springfield Vaccination Day” is evoking a comment on this comical situation. And if Bart refuses to get vaccinated, maybe his lab rat would take his chances.

Ceramic