The focus of the Installation is a large kidney-shaped pool, its surface disturbed by two jets spraying water into the space which are picked up by coloured underwater lights. The pool is approached via a corridor which offers distorted views of the Installation through a curtain wall of corrugated plastic. The screen contains symbols from the table of elements, a theme continued by polystyrene shapes bearing similar inscriptions, floating in the pool. Visitors are provided with brushes to wash down the blue and red cells on the actual walls of the space, revealing images below the painted surface.
The Installation brings together the hierarchy of matter with the function of the kidney, alluding to the process of absorbing, filtering and recycling, mirrored by the activity of the artist. The toy-like quality of the elements in the exhibition reflects our relationship to matter. The latter's transient and invisible nature forms the basis of every known thing and is rendered permanent by being encased in abstract tables.
In everyday life science plays no part, other than in its appearance as a source of wonderment celebrated in populist forms. Kesseler states that we live with the elements without recognising them ... they have names both romantic and evocative, which, in abbreviated form appear like excerpts from a sound poem.
Kesseler shapes the very cells that make up recognisable forms as objects in their own right, thereby effectively hijacking the language of science and placing its elements at the service of metaphor.