Marcel Helmer

Fables transport the interaction of humans with each other by substituting animals, this project uses the interaction of humans and technology to reflect the relationship of humans to his creations. Each tale inhabiting, not only the spirit but the ideology of a specific time in military history.

Fables transfer the interactions of humans in society into the metaphorical world of animals and tales. These technocratic fables may take place in a supposedly similar space. Telling fantastic tales of machines depending on, cooperating with or being defeated by animals. Using the language of a very specific world, depending highly on the belief in technological superiority that it already created half of all these fables on its own: animals in military use.

These fables not only exemplify the relationship of all three protagonists,  but show the potential of seemingly simple organisms in the past, present and future. What if invasive species become a weapon? What if the next danger is an engineered physical insect, not a digital one, or it even already existed/exists?