● Comprised of a concrete plinth and a large beam of teak wood, the top of which has been emptied partly, the surface of the wooden beam bears the traces of time, of sun, of rain. The artist has reactivated these traces, through the introduction of poured metal. In the cooling process the metal becomes one with the wood, and as such has forever marked / captured the movement inside each of these wrinkles of time, moments of weathering, and in turn has bestowed an anthropological and spiritual aesthetic to the work.
● Throughout Kader’s practice, concrete and steel appear often as a symbolic references to modernist architecture, reflecting its best as well as its worst consequences on society. The wooden beam that emerges from concrete references the eternal strength of Nature, whilst the drops of cooled molten metal form a type of stigmata illustrating the tensions between cultural modernity and eternal Nature.
● The sculpture articulates itself in a movement that is defined by the shape of the beam - twisting this partly spiritual, partly human figure, whilst the metal drops bear the ambivalence of emotion. Beautiful and sad, the tension emerging from this sculpture is ambivalent, and can be recognized as a paradox - a mirror of our times.