Why keep going when no one believes in it anymore? But don’t worry. Someone is still taking care of it.
In Honey Never Regrets, Marcel Walldorf (b. 1983, Frankfurt am Main) transforms saasfee*pavillon in Frankfurt into an absurd and unsettling landscape where the world is too exhausted to sleep. Through sculptural installations made from historic straw beehives, the exhibition explores care, exhaustion, resilience and the contradictions of contemporary life.
Honey Never Regrets
The world is tired, and no one lets it sleep.
Every day it grows a little more absurd. No sooner have we adjusted to the latest crisis, the next war, or another round of cuts than the next upheaval is already waiting.
We see the contradictions.
We see things falling apart.
We know.
And yet we carry on as if nothing had changed.
*Honey Never Regrets* exists precisely within this condition: the inability to stop, the persistence of moving forward, the strange coexistence of awareness and continuation.
The exhibition begins with historic woven straw beehives, some over a hundred years old. They belong to a craft that has almost disappeared. The knowledge itself has not been lost. It is simply that hardly anyone wants to practise it anymore. Perhaps that is one of the great paradoxes of our time.
We abandon the things that sustain us, while holding on to those that slowly wear us down.
At the same time, we continue to surrender responsibility and control to systems we barely understand—not because we don’t know better, but because we do.
Within the saasfee*pavillon, the beehives reappear in a quietly unsettling landscape. The bees themselves remain invisible, yet their presence is unmistakable. The works unfold between care and neglect, hope and resignation, preservation and letting go.
Honey never regrets.
Perhaps, in the end, this exhibition is less about bees than it is about us.
And about the question of what we choose to hold on to.
Because there can be no shadow without light.