The wooden sheath of Marc Ming Chan’s knife for the Fairy Tales exhibition is carved like a flint, like a call to our ancestors. It thus establishes a dialogue between the primitive and the civilized. 
At the time of the Neanderthal, the flint knife is one of the first carved tools of humanity. It is, then, one of the rare social objects perfectly ambivalent: present peacefully in our homes, at the time of meals between friends or family, or more cruelly during an attack or a crime. 
A base keeps it in balance, with the sharp side facing the sky, as an offering of human contradictions to the gods. 
In its packaging, it is accompanied by a paper ribbon with the sentence « No matter how hard we try to look civilized, we’re just a bunch of barbarians ».
Like all the knives of the 5 Fairy Tales artists, its steel blade, made in Japan, is engraved with the title of the exhibition. 
Each knife project is edited to 10 copies.

Fairy Tales – CASSTL, Braziliëstraat 27, 2000 Antwerpen, Belgium – from Thursday April 20th to Friday May 5th 2023.