BE, MER.paperkunsthalle , 2008 hardcover , 280x230mm, 144pages , English edition . ISBN 978907697959513.
Ives Maes probed the derailment of contemporary hyper-ethics with his project for a recyclable refugee camp. His latrines, wells, shelters and coffins, fabricated in a natural resin, raise ethics to a manic state. The Recyclable Refugee Camp tackles the ethical imperative that encourages art to intervene in the world, localizing the epicenter of a new utopia inside the boundaries of the art world itself. Excerpt from the text 'An economy of truth' by Wim Peeters, published in Flash Art nr. 235, 2004