There is a tangle of green plastic hoses on the floor. They are meters of garden hose. Many houses have such a hose, to water the plants in the garden or on the balcony. Or to wash the car with. What is special about these hoses is that they move by themselves. This is because air is blown into them with a pump, and that air then flows out again. It is as if the hoses are breathing, and that is also how the blowing of the pump sounds.

With his works of art, Ignacy Radtke often brings together the real and the fantasy. He can see something wonderful in very ordinary things that people use. What this artist is also interested in is how people deal with the difference between the city and nature. The cities where we live are increasingly taking the place of the nature that used to be there. While people love nature, and the animals that walk around there. It is a funny idea to let a garden hose, a thing that belongs to people, breathe and move as if it were a living animal. You can imagine that this is a new species of animal that lives curled up in our homes. A snake that feels at home in the city, and that doesn’t need nature at all.