The caterpillar is a transitional stage, a stepping stone en route to total transformation. In the evolution of the relationship between man and the rest of nature, the end of this route is still hard to imagine. Will it be directed towards exploitation and annihilation, or rather towards a synergy which will reorganize the power balance currently in place?

Daniella Meroz’s Caterpillar offers a new evolutionary stage, a human-animal hybrid which marks a possible trajectory. Like its fantastic image in the story of Alice, Meroz offers a hallucinatory experience in search of a way out of Wonderland, or in this case –Desertland – as a reflection of reality.