In 1991 Jochem Hendricks began to build makromodels of viralstructures, e.g. aids, cancer, flue, or herpes. When exhibited, these structures are hung from the ceiling and are dispersed throughout the room like a planetarysystem. This body of works encompasses 15 objects. Each made up of between 60 and 752 ping-pong balls, glued together according to elaborately calculated blueprints.

«The cool subdued aesthetic of these structural models is a virulent contradiction to the ‹malignity› of these viruses, the precision of the constructions bearing a direct relation to their surefire ability to infect. One is reminded of an astrophysicist, who explains the universe in a dry, everyday terminology, while >all hell is breaking loose< around him.»

Jean-Christophe Ammann in: Jochem Hendricks: «33», Katalog des MMK Frankfurt/Main, 1992