Art -Installation. SLEEPING WITH THE GODS The large-scale installation “Sleeping with the Gods”, also the title of the exhibition, occupies and takes over the whole back area of the exhibition space. It depicts the demographic development based on models by the UN and the dramatic loss of biodiversity in the animal kingdom. 

It is a well-designed as well as an artistically powerful display of how both are related. The room transforms into three-dimensional, accessible statistics. In order to be able to read it, you have to imagine the hight of the room as a timeline from the year 1500 until today. The floor represents the time about 520 years ago. From there, various grass- covered cones of different heights taper steadily upwards until some of them fizzle out. In the middle, a mighty, highly polished cone made of stainless steel raises up but it is upside down like a static hurricane that gains more volume and power. It represents the rapid demographic development, the grass-covered finite cones the other species that are first decimated and finally eradicated during the time of the biggest human interference with nature. The different species get a symbolic commemorative plaque in neon writing. The writing is from the artists’ 91-year-old mother who neatly wrote the names down to be copied. 

RECONSTRUCTION
The installation “Reconstruction” shows part of the actual moon landscape based on original data from Nasa one-to-one, but in fragmented form. For Borer, the moon symbolises a dead planet, a dystopia. In the shape shown here, it has already disintegrated in a distant future. Its components, put together by a species unknown to us, are exhibited as a mural relief. The gaps between the individual fragments remind us of damaged, decaying skin or parched and broken up clay soil caused by dry periods and droughts. Borer has reproduced the real desiccation with computer simulation. In its reconstructed form, the moon fragment serves science as a forensic research object whose destruction is examined retrospectively with the same rational meticulousness that is applied to the debris of a plane wreckage