Quinta Essentia VII / nigredo
Dimension: 90×70 cm
Material: burned and recycled burlap from India, natural resin, real gold leaf
Year: 2019
Portfolio: Quinta Essentia
Quinta Essentia VII / nigredo
Dimension: 90×70 cm
Material: burned and recycled burlap from India, natural resin, real gold leaf
Year: 2019
Portfolio: Quinta Essentia

Heavy duty burlap bags, used for exporting goods such as coffeebeans from third world countries, exude real white gold, thus revealing their ‚Quinta Essentia‘, their true hidden nature and indicating profound transformation and change.
In addition this work also points at the increasing gap between the rich and the poor, and the growing social phenomena of exploitation and modern slavery.