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11. November 2008
Wunderkammer, Chicago, 2007, Installation by Jenny Kendler
The press release explains it very well:
[...] On one wall hang graphite portraits of humans wearing animal masks, each one the face of an extinct species, each portrait drawn from a photograph taken in the year the animal became extinct. Shown in black oval frames, similar to those of 19th century funerary portraits, and hung with black ribbons, these portraits question our complicity in the extinction of these species, and intimate that we may take upon ourselves these lost identities. [...]
images & text: jennykendler.com
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oh die sind ja fein, besonders das detail mit dem black ribbons gefällt mir. dafür würde ich mein schlafzimmer umgestalten :)
…in eine gedenkstätte? ne, recht hast du das sieht schon schick aus. die message ist natürlich… eher traurig *schluchz*.