Why Look at Animals? AGRIMIKÁ.
![Maria Papadimitriou, <em>Istallation View</em> Maria Papadimitriou, <em>Istallation View</em>](http://www.arte.it/foto/600x450/a4/32427-Maria_20Papadimitriou_2C_20Istallation_20View_20_11_.jpg)
Maria Papadimitriou, Istallation View
From 09 Maggio 2015 to 22 Novembre 2015
Venice
Place: Biennale Giardini / Pav. Greece
Address: Giardini della Biennale
Responsibles: Gabi Scardi, Alexios Papazacharias
Organizers:
- Hellenic Ministry of Culture
- Education and Religious Affairs
The Athens-born artist will be participating with her work titled Why Look At Animals? which focuses on the relationship between reason and instinct.
Maria Papadimitriou’s installation is a shop, a vestige of the past that sells animal hides and leather, transferred from the city of Volos to the central but “ruined” landscape of Greek pavilion. The AGRIMIKÁ are animals that coexist with humans, but resist domestication.
We, humans, see in animals the reflection of our own features, behaviors, and manners. This awareness permits separation by contrasting the human with the animalistic. As the beast ends up as embodying the divergence from the human norm, the image of a democratic society is deconstructed, and part of it degraded: rights no longer exist for all and in the same measure.
This presentation of the relationship of humans to animals becomes a contemporary allegory of the dispossessed and the resistant and sparks concerns ranging from politics and history to economics and traditions, ethics and aesthetics, fear of the foreign and the incomprehensible.
Maria Papadimitriou’s installation is a shop, a vestige of the past that sells animal hides and leather, transferred from the city of Volos to the central but “ruined” landscape of Greek pavilion. The AGRIMIKÁ are animals that coexist with humans, but resist domestication.
We, humans, see in animals the reflection of our own features, behaviors, and manners. This awareness permits separation by contrasting the human with the animalistic. As the beast ends up as embodying the divergence from the human norm, the image of a democratic society is deconstructed, and part of it degraded: rights no longer exist for all and in the same measure.
This presentation of the relationship of humans to animals becomes a contemporary allegory of the dispossessed and the resistant and sparks concerns ranging from politics and history to economics and traditions, ethics and aesthetics, fear of the foreign and the incomprehensible.
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