The key to understanding what is going on needs to be found in the merciless reality of evolution. Organisms fundamentally live with challenges and pressure in their environment. As an answer they develop solutions as they go along. Solutions that are built on top of the construction that already exists.

Mads Westrup (b.1984 Copenhagen) is studying at Akademie der Bildenden Künste Wien with prof. Daniel Richter at the School of Expanded Pictorial Space. Recent exhibitions include ‘Kunst und Ãœbung in expanded Bildraumâ€, IMO, Copenhagen (2013); ‘Two Gbâ€s†w. Kris Lemsalu, HHDM, Vienna (2012); ‘Pants on Fire†w. Nazim Unal Yilmaz, Ve.Sch, Vienna (2011).

Indlægget Mads Westrup Sketches and Ballads for an openly aware Europe 13.09 – 27.10.2013 blev først udgivet på Gjedde Gaarden.