“Factories, once proud of producing beautifully crafted globes—symbols of the world's vast beauty and delicate balance—have become a distorted parody of their original function.”

In this new chapter of his vast production, Kessels takes up a new archive and transforms it - with his inimitable ironic streak, into an open criticism of the excesses of capitalism. Here, therefore, globes become a tautological symbol of a destructive streak, that of man and his immoderate capitalist consumerism, which turns towards the very object that they represent. This shift reveals not only the decline of artisanal knowledge, but also the erosion of a symbolic relationship with the world: the globes, from tools of orientation and wonder, become relics of an era in which we believed that the world could be understood, measured and represented with coherence.