B for Benommenheit, 2017
Awning, clay, showcase, smartphone, plastic, documents
Dimensions variable
Exhibition view: Museum Haus Konstruktiv, 2017
Awarded the 2017 Canton Zurich Art Award
«Die Benommenheit ist das Grundwesen des Organismus.» Martin Heidegger, Die Grundbegriffe der Metaphysik
Starting from the logo of a former grocery shop, the work attempts to track a verisimilar ontology of the “Animal” and its consequent iconography. It consists of an assemblage of visual testimony, archeological reconstruction, and a fictional display.
With a quote from Hedegger’s “What is Metaphysics?” in which he designates the animal as “poor in the world,” an excerpt of Walt Disney’s Mickey Mouse Cartoon, and a butcher’s wrapping paper, the aim is to unfold one of the many Western anthropocentric representations of the “Animal.”
Awning, clay, showcase, smartphone, plastic, documents
Dimensions variable
Exhibition view: Museum Haus Konstruktiv, 2017
Awarded the 2017 Canton Zurich Art Award
«Die Benommenheit ist das Grundwesen des Organismus.» Martin Heidegger, Die Grundbegriffe der Metaphysik
Starting from the logo of a former grocery shop, the work attempts to track a verisimilar ontology of the “Animal” and its consequent iconography. It consists of an assemblage of visual testimony, archeological reconstruction, and a fictional display.
With a quote from Hedegger’s “What is Metaphysics?” in which he designates the animal as “poor in the world,” an excerpt of Walt Disney’s Mickey Mouse Cartoon, and a butcher’s wrapping paper, the aim is to unfold one of the many Western anthropocentric representations of the “Animal.”
