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	For the first season of [[Lux]], she reviewed the Champan brothers' exhibition [http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/exhibitions/chapman/default.shtm Jake and Dinos Chapman: When Humans Walked the Earth]:		For the first season of [[Lux]], she reviewed the Champan brothers' exhibition [http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/exhibitions/chapman/default.shtm Jake and Dinos Chapman: When Humans Walked the Earth]:
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-	Taking their sculpture Little Death Machine (Castrated) 1993, now in the Tate Collection, as a point of departure, the Chapmans have created a series of improbable machines that emulate human functions such as breathing, thinking or sexual intercourse. In their subversive wit and black humour, the works recall the disturbing sexual fetishism and fascination with dismemberment of the Surrealists.	+	Taking their sculpture ''Little Death Machine (Castrated) 1993'', now in the Tate Collection, as a point of departure, the Chapmans have created a series of improbable machines that emulate human functions such as breathing, thinking or sexual intercourse. In their subversive wit and black humour, the works recall the disturbing sexual fetishism and fascination with dismemberment of the Surrealists.
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	''When Humans Walked the Earth 2007'' contests the distinctions we make between man and machine and assumptions about historical progress. Cast in the traditional medium of bronze, these objects evoke the heroic tradition of monumental sculpture. However their scatological imagery, subversive intent and complex associations suggest a sense of impending collapse		''When Humans Walked the Earth 2007'' contests the distinctions we make between man and machine and assumptions about historical progress. Cast in the traditional medium of bronze, these objects evoke the heroic tradition of monumental sculpture. However their scatological imagery, subversive intent and complex associations suggest a sense of impending collapse
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Saskia de Coster (1976) is a Belgian literary theorist en writer. She guest starred in Lux, the new culture show by Luc Janssen at the VRT.

[haar] een opkomend literair talent noemen is haast een understatement. HUMO riep haar uit tot één van de tien beste schrijvers onder de 35, en De Volkskrant maakte een vorstelijke buiging voor haar laatste boek. Op anderhalf jaar tijd publiceerde ze al twee romans, en dat is snel, beseft ze: “Ik zie mezelf nu geen tien jaar aan één boek werken. Mijn geest moet nog ouder en trager worden.” http://www.kuleuven.ac.be/ck/2004_05/04/ck16-04-decoster.php

For the first season of Lux, she reviewed the Champan brothers' exhibition Jake and Dinos Chapman: When Humans Walked the Earth:

Taking their sculpture Little Death Machine (Castrated) 1993, now in the Tate Collection, as a point of departure, the Chapmans have created a series of improbable machines that emulate human functions such as breathing, thinking or sexual intercourse. In their subversive wit and black humour, the works recall the disturbing sexual fetishism and fascination with dismemberment of the Surrealists.

When Humans Walked the Earth 2007 contests the distinctions we make between man and machine and assumptions about historical progress. Cast in the traditional medium of bronze, these objects evoke the heroic tradition of monumental sculpture. However their scatological imagery, subversive intent and complex associations suggest a sense of impending collapse