mybody.com // nest den haag // 2019

39000 years ago humans were using pipes of bone and mineral pigments to stencil their hands and leave permanent traces of their presence in the caves of Sulawesi, Indonesia. The action – a ritual with a since long lost significance, the invention of figurative art, or perhaps just a simple "I was here" – was repeated 26000 years later in Cueva de los Manos, the cave of hands, Argentina.

Taking as point of departure some of the world's very earliest representations of our human bodies, Jenny Lindblom in her (Re)creation series reflects on contemporary manifestations of the same. Traces of the shifting needs and ideals that conditions our current bodies become a fragmented new creation myth, illustrated in ephemeral paintings made with tanning spray, slowly changing colour and fading away. The breath of life meets the breathing exercises of a mindfulness app and the gust of air that indicates speed in emoji language, while we navigate between stopping a deluge of micro plastics and making our best selves ready to communicate that we were here.