‘Are You Dead?’ is the latest exhibition in Nexus Art Café. Three contemporary taxidermists explore the relationship that we have with the animal kingdom. Disturbing, shocking and often high amusing this exhibition challenges our perceptions of the animal kingdom by placing them in an unexpected context.Are You Dead?
Nexus Art Cafe
30th September - 1st November
Thursday 2nd October 7-10 with live music - all welcome
Susannah Gent has two pieces of work in the exhibition: ‘Sentimental Rabbit Suicide’ and ‘Shop Window’. Susannah does not use taxidermy to re-inject life into the creature but simply to present the it as dead. ‘Shop Window’ consists of several single sculptural taxidermy works drawing inspiration from a Victorian curiosity shop. The timeless ‘Sentimental Rabbit Suicide’ explores our relationship with the progression of generations using recycled matter from the food chain and house clearance.
Van Herrewege’s work is inspired by a fascination with the form and aesthetics of creatures from the Animal kingdom. He is interested in the juxtaposition of animals in unexpected contexts and how it affects our perception of them.
The recurrent characters of Luz Valencia’s work are birds, jellyfishes, insects, bacteria, tiny explosions of colors and lines that multiply across the surface in an obsessive way. Unstoppable and wanting to cover it all but limited to a designated areas assigned for them to live in , similar to the western social inhabitations, gentrified classes forced from abodes to scratch around in the deluge of structures.
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