Mieke Bal: "Extreme close-ups, so extreme that it is hard to “read” them. Sections of plants, alternating with the skin of an elephant, the eye and mouth of a monkey, the tongue and lips of a giraffe, and a different animal I cannot recognize, along with sonic close-ups of these wild animals’ teeth gnawing on branches. The sound is as unsettlingly close as the images are. Thus the animals produce material the artist might use for a sculpture.
The title refers to a place of universal appeal. Animals go there because they must in order to stay alive. But it is also a place of danger because the enemy goes there, too. As do hunters and poachers, those mindless people who don’t mind the extinction of a species as long as they can make money out of it. The human use of the term “watering hole” refers to a bar – for some, a social place of survival; for others, of danger, of alcohol abuse, or of fights. The title also evokes the animal world and its hazards in a more general sense."