Saar Scheerlings (1990) investigates the meaning of cultural objects. Her art is an endless mill of production, constantly susceptible to outside influences. It is a process like a trade route or port where all kinds of previously unknown things can influence each other. Anything can be a starting point or lead for Saar to take a new direction, such as a tea box lying around in the studio or a self-invented technique.
She is building the material culture of a fictitious civilisation. Inspired by ethnographic collections in museums, textile crafts and building methods, her work is a search for a sense of inspiration and meaning as we know it from ancient cultures and religious artefacts. In doing so, Saar looks at traditional ways of making and reuses both special and everyday materials.