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In their unexpected movement, the eternity of nature is transformed into a metaphor for the threat, instability and uncertainty associated with the intensifying manifestations of the advancing environmental crisis.<\/em>\u201d \u2013 Michal Kole\u010dek, &#8220;Gardening of Soul&#8221; exhibition, House of Arts, \u00dast\u00ed nad Labem, CZ, 2023<br><br><em>For their work series Metastabil (2023), the artists shake up familiar surroundings. Each of the individual video works in the series feature a massive rock, which appears to be caused to sway slightly by a ghostly hand and seems to be trapped in an endless loop. Through minimal physical intervention, Herold and Huth create a simulative world in which the rocks are in constant motion.\u201c<\/em> \u2013 Julia Anna Wittmann, &#8220;Real World Assets&#8221;, catalogue, icon Verlag Munich, 2025<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"class_list":["post-2438","works","type-works","status-publish","hentry","xfolkentry"],"acf":{"year":"2023","description":"2025, Herold & Huth, video loop series"},"patchwork_entries":[{"imageUrl":"https:\/\/barbaraherold.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/herold-huth-metastabilbedrich-shorter.gif","videoUrl":"","description":""},{"imageUrl":"https:\/\/barbaraherold.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/herold-huth-metastabil-dominik.gif","videoUrl":"","description":"Dominik (CZ)"},{"imageUrl":"https:\/\/barbaraherold.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/herold-huth-metastabil-gipsy.jpg","videoUrl":"","description":"Gipsy (D)"},{"imageUrl":"https:\/\/barbaraherold.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/herold-huth-metastabil-amalie.jpg","videoUrl":"","description":"Amalie (A)"},{"imageUrl":"https:\/\/barbaraherold.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/herold-huth-metastabil-jizerka.jpg","videoUrl":"","description":"Jelen (CZ)"},{"imageUrl":"https:\/\/barbaraherold.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/herold-huth-ingo.gif","videoUrl":"","description":"Ingo (D)"},{"imageUrl":"https:\/\/barbaraherold.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/herold-huth-metastabil-edelmann.jpg","videoUrl":"","description":"Edelmann (D)"},{"imageUrl":"https:\/\/barbaraherold.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/barbara-herold-florian-huth-bedrichov.jpg","videoUrl":"","description":"Bed\u0159ich (CZ)"},{"imageUrl":"https:\/\/barbaraherold.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/barbara-herold-florian-huth-chybotec.jpg","videoUrl":"","description":"Chybotec (PL)"},{"imageUrl":"https:\/\/barbaraherold.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/herold-huth-metastabil-jungfrau.jpg","videoUrl":"","description":"Jungfrau (A)"}],"taggard":{"allTags":["latest","animation","ar \/ vr","postnatural","graphic","Herold & Huth","installation","interactive","print","public art","video","--","geometric","experimental","LABOR 45","early"],"checkedTags":["latest","postnatural","Herold & Huth","video"]},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Metastabil - Barbara Herold<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Herold &amp; 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