Attraction Fatale（2010），Steel, earth, resin, acrylic, varnish，238 × 135 × 75 cm，193 × 92 × 67 cm，The Parkview Museum Collection

Gloria Friedmann is a German sculptor and installation artist based in France.  Since the 1980s, Friedmann’s works have taken specificity and references from nature and the animal world. Drawing on the symbolic meaning of the elements she stages to create dichotomies— between nature and culture, biology and technology, the living and the dead, she questions the evolution of humanity, with its inherent doubts and deviations.

Attraction Fatale is a new version of Adam and Eve. Friedmann, who has disliked how Eve was presented to betray humanity, depicts her here with no forbidden fruit, but carrying Earth, as if pregnant with and bearing it. The man carrying a child or Death with a Pinocchio nose, alludes to the child or Death manipulating or dominating over man. This portrayal begs an attitude of putting everything into question, including death. Earth as the material used suggests our living on earth, our role to protect it and our connection with it. This work also represents the incongruous mystery between two people being together forever.