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Performance artist Jeroen Eisinga is seated at a small table in front of a wall, which is entirely covered by bees. The pulsating, squirming bee mass gradually covers the artist?s body and face as well. In this gruesome, yet beautifully filmed performance the artist balances on the border between life and death. A claustrophobic image of fearlessness and patience.

Jeroen Eisinga began to work in performance art and film in the early 1990s. He made a series of controversial films in which the idea of suffering and personal danger as artistic expression were central. In his first performance (40-44-PG, 1993) a Volkswagen Beetle without a driver, circles mechanically in circles around the blindfolded artist who walks in circles in the opposite direction. Eisinga`s work deals increasingly with death and transience.