Eyub Acikgoz
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eyub.acikgoz@gmail.com
The following project functions as a fable – it looks to history to critique our treatment of animals and each other within our current context in order to question our future.
With every leap in technology and civilisation, comes consequences – yet the same stories are told with different characters and different settings.
The Animals and Their Layla
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Having developed postpartum depression in a society of digital idolatry, a queen from a genetically modified celebrity bloodline commissions several subversive, animal-centric programmes on the grounds of her architectural confines in the Trianon Estate of Versailles.
The project provocatively positions three works symbolising different human-animal relationships: a snow leopard menagerie to represent idealized wilderness, a new palace integrating bees to represent anthropocentric domestication, and a rhinoceros bone farm to represent green-washed industrial exploitation.
