Milk comes from a suit, although it is not that simple either. The time that is required so that milk ends up in your shopping cart is not known to everyone. An important reason for two artists to hang an exhibition on it.
In Licking Along Let Lieve van Meegen and Lily Dollner immerse himself in milk to underline the origin of the product. “When we go to the supermarket and see a pack of milk, do we know the process that the milk has undergone?” Stip from Meegen. “We are intrigued by that.”
The exhibition is set in the Onlanden, where both creative people convey their message to the public. Lying in the milk is a way to add this extra power. At the same time, the artists expose themselves and show their intimacy in relation to milk, directly from cows from the nature reserve.
The immediate reason for the art expression was an experience in which a group of cows licked salt stones. Van Meegen and Dollner viewed the scene with slight surprise and immersed themselves in the cow. “It is quite intimate to be with a cow,” explains Van Meenen. “There is a lot of care and love involved. We wanted to convey and magnify that.”
Yoghurt ice cream was made of the milk in which the artists baptized. And of course to taste during the exhibition. “Do you dare to taste that or not?”, Artistic director Hilde de Bruijn of Into Nature raises. “By organizing these types of art projects in the country, we try to bring out the consciousness that everything is inextricably linked.”
Licking Along can be seen until the end of October during Into Nature in the Onlanden.