In recent year's, MAP Office's work explored domestication through a variety of subjects including theme of island, jungle, agriculture and nature. In their approach, the devious relationship between humans and the natural environment is changing its original value with sets of actions: seeding, planting, cutting, manipulating, grafting, and painting. In this process, repetition or the "re-" is a continuous effort to fabricate, re-produce and control nature.Comprising mixed-media works, the exhibition is inspired by a citation by Jean- Jacques Rousseau in Claude Levi-Strauss's TristesTropiques (The Sad Tropics). This statement questions the idea of value in a more and more artificial environment.

"The Golden Age" is a concentrated exhibition showcasing MAP Office's newest production of Concrete Jungle and related sculptures Cosmetic Bonsai, using trees as a base for further artistic composition. Shifting the old ideas of "natural" romanticism in Europe and "tropicalism" in Latin America, the artist converts into a beauty alchemist. A series of jungle graffiti on photographs and painted devitalized bonsai are enhancing an already superficial reality. Pedestals and mirrors complete the installation as structures of power and beauty.

Courtesy of Boers-Li Gallery