Buch, Englisch, 350 Seiten, Format (B × H): 210 mm x 297 mm, Gewicht: 1500 g
Creatures in (and outside) the mumok Collection
Buch, Englisch, 350 Seiten, Format (B × H): 210 mm x 297 mm, Gewicht: 1500 g
ISBN: 978-3-902947-96-3
Verlag: Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig
The Animal Within addresses such questions and uses the popular appeal of animals to reflect on the nature of sex, hunger, and affection, as well as on family and gender relations, socialization and domestication, and, not least, on the enduring impact of colonial history. Who leads whom on a leash? Who clips whose wings? Who scratches whose back?
The exhibition catalogue is thus less about animals than about bodies, moving or still, reclining or standing, crouching or crawling. The animal as a motif serves as a starting point to get to a materialist understanding of art and life. For in the Western world, “taming and framing” is what we do to mark our territories and claim our subjectivities.