Zadok Ben-David has for some years drawn on the content of scientific manuals from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries as source material for his sculptures. The distinctive line drawings illustrating anatomies, scientific phenomena and the process of evolution have formed the basis of both installations and individual sculptures.
In Antarctica (1994-95) Ben-David has taken the image of the polar icecap and has surrounded it, like a timepiece, with heads depicting the evolution of man from ape to professor. This wall sculpture, typical of an artist who uses irony and humour in his work, is nevertheless made with scientific precision, cut by laser and painted flawlessly.