Dominant Predator
Portrait of a Species’ places mankind as a dominant predator far beyond food chains, and questions various aspects of our existence and position on the planet. Whilst the human species have evolved in a truly unique and astounding way, this evolution has resulted in the creation of an animal which struggles to coexist with the planet.
All of the animals used in the images were found at the sides of roads around the countryside where the artist lived.
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Zhu Jinshi, “Boat” is an impressive installation composed of bamboo, cotton thread and 8,000 sheets of rice paper. The 12 metre-long structure was assembled over a three-day period by a crew of workers from Hong Kong who layered the sheets of rice paper onto the bamboo poles.
John Clang - The Myth of the Flat Earth (2013)
Artist’s statement:
“A meditation on today’s nerve-wracked urban humanity, this photo series depicts the desperate need to stay afloat — at all costs.
A sense of paranoia pervades; even as the human figures tread on invisible waters in a pool three feet deep, constantly struggling to stay afloat, head above waters.
Like them, we also strive ceaselessly to meet the high-water mark of society’s expectations.”
Karen Knorr - Academies, 1994 -
Within the spaces of the Royal Academy Schools in London, the Royal Academy of Art in Stockholm, and the Repin Institute in St Petersburg, Knorr reflects upon the relationship between the production of western art in the academy and the transmission and reproduction of such ideas through the museum. The series explores the foundation myths of European fine art culture and the link to national identity and patrimony.
h/t likeafieldmouse
MYSTERIOUS TINY ROOMS BY MARC GIAI-MINIET
French artist Marc Giai-Miniet (Born in 1946 in Trappes) makes some of the most incredibly detailed (and disturbing!) dollhouses that we’ve ever seen. Marc started creating these disturbing shadowbox dioramas rather late in his career, recurring themes include libraries, furnaces, laboratories, submarines and intestine-like tubing in lonely, decaying spaces.
Light Installation by Conrad Shawcross
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