Dead Animals (Domestic Scene) is an installation that consists of various household furniture—a chair, a table, a bench and a shelf—with six sculptures resting on them that each resemble an animal—a dog, a parrot, a praying mantis, a lizard, a squirrel and a chicken. The furniture, made by the artist out of pine, are interconnected by a series of wooden beams, roughly forming the layout of the artist’s home studio. The animals are all dead. Made out of burnt wooden blocks sawn to geometric shapes, they lay motionless in foetal positions taking the furniture as their final resting place. Dead Animals (Domestic Scene) pays tribute to the animals that the artist has encountered and physically handled before, some of which are/were pets, some of which he had caught or fostered in his childhood. As with many of his recent works, Dead Animals (Domestic Scene) references imminent catastrophes that will soon threaten both human and non-human inhabitants of Earth in times to come.
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