Food chain incl. prehistoric animals

Henrik Olesen

Info: Crocodiles first came into the world around 200 million years ago. When looking at the crocodile species that exist today, they bear a striking resemblance to their distant ancestors. Despite having evolved, they nonetheless serve as windows into the past and a world before humans arrived. Olesen’s sculptures of crocodiles (2024–25) are made from various materials, some from plaster, others from papier-mâché or concrete, and have been given different surface treatments. They refer to crocodiles from different moments in the long evolutionary history of the species, going back to 95 million years ago, approximately 83.5 million years ago, and 2,000 years ago. The crocodiles appear at once naturalistic and artificial, bearing processual traces of their physical becoming, a state they can be said to still inhabit. (…)