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Final Show | June 2007
Abstract: A body in pieces, either as a result of the butchering process or the medical dissect, renders visible the transformation of a living creature into multiples of objects alienated from its entirety. This Pig Trilogy begins with three dead pigs, one volume for each, to provide the space in which one can investigate this transformation of fragmented bodies. Each act of deconstruction has a different purpose and triggers its own set of associations, ranging from butchery and barbecue to veterinary medicine and science. The work focuses on the pig becoming meat, a scientific artefact and a collection of bones. Whilst the work deals with dead animals and as such also death, its presentation seeks to obscure the subject matter in a sterile and calm, perhaps isolated way and presents the viewer with the task of looking closer at the individual sculpture each fragment has become. Working with organic material, touching raw meat and dealing with fluids holds a fascination and acts in itself almost as a reminder of our own bodily fragility and how exposed we humans are to decay.
In collaboration with the Royal Veterinary College (RVC), University of London, England.
Download a Foreword by Julia Lohmann and the Introduction to the work here.
Digital C-Type Prints 80 cm x 105 cm, mounted on Dibond and black tray frame.
Below are some spreads from my Documentation book, a pathologist’s tools and a heart being dissected in the post mortem room of the RVC and butcher’s tools.
