The intense specifics and obsessional particularities of Behrens’ created world speak of universal truths of discovery, recording, collecting, classifying, appropriating, assimilating, transposing, translating and picturing – yet never dispelling the fascination of things that obstinately remain exotic visitors in our visual territory. Martin Kemp, edited extract from Twenty-five Years of Expeditions into Naboland by Reinhard Behrens.