Cave

About 45,000 years ago, a new consciousness of humanity began to manifest itself in the form of drawings on the walls of caves. The ability to project inner images outwards, to be able to share them with others over a longer period of time and thus to shape the world through imagination, has one of its origins here. If you enter one of the caves today and illuminate the drawings with a burning torch, it almost takes your breath away. Along with the incomprehensible beauty and three-dimensional presence of the images, the creeping feeling of being less in a cave than in the minds of the people who created these works of art is very difficult to grasp. One of these caves is called Chauvet. It is actually located in south-eastern France, but can now be experienced directly inside your own skull with the help of a virtual reality headset, the controller acting as a virtual torch in your hand. Due to a rockfall, the Chauvet Cave was sealed in a time capsule, untouched, for almost 20,000 years and was only rediscovered in 1994. To protect it from human aerosols that would endanger the cave’s climate, the cave remains...