Insects have been ubiquitous in Jan Fabre’s work right from the start. At the age of twenty, at the end of the seventies, he made drawings of insects and transformed them into surreal objects or hybrid beings. The bodies and movements of these strange creatures continue to inspire his later work. Spiders, beetles and cocoons act as a metaphor for miraculous transformations and endless cycles of birth, death and rebirth. Fabre uses insects as in-between creatures and messengers to convey his unique world-view to his audience.