By Charlotte Van Campenhout
AMSTERDAM, September 16 (Reuters) - Amsterdam's Rijksmuseum, habitation to Dutch masterpieces equal Rembrandt's "Nightwatch", volition temporarily get its walls and windows overproduction by 700 elephantine ants, as component part of a New present.
By breaking graphics conventions, "House Taken," by Colombian creative person Rafael Gomezbarros, wants to reap tending to migration and constrained shift.
Divine by the South American country struggle 'tween the political science and irregular groups which started in 1964 and forced millions of South American country citizens to leave-taking their homes, the bodies of Gomezbarros's ants are made from deuce casts of human skulls, representing both victims and perpetrators, Gomezbarros told Reuters.
The ants' legs are sticks from Jasmine trees, secondhand during the infringe to cut through the bodies of victims to masque the flavour of expiry.
The pregnant of "House Taken," which has antecedently shown in Colombia, Bolivia, the Combined States and Sweden, changes terminated fourth dimension depending on its audience, he aforesaid.
Populate transmigrate for dissimilar reasons, Gomezbarros added, so much as "a country in bankruptcy, war or lack of opportunities."
"Casa Tomada" is split up of a bigger exhibition, "Crawly Creatures", which wish head start Sept.

30 and run up until Jan. 15, 2023. It focuses on the ever-changing perceptions of crawly creatures, so much as ants simply besides toads, snakes and spiders, c in the humanistic discipline and sciences. (Reportage by Charlotte Avant-garde Campenhout; redaction by Jonathan Oatis)