Chiara Lecca
“In my work the animal becomes an accomplice to the operation of reality’s estrangement managed, ordered and controlled by man. The animal becomes intermediary to the re-emerging of our wild nature.
I am interested in the human-animal relationship and in the way humans try to categorize animals without considering the whole human-animal world: pets, farm animals, animals used as food, animals used as clothing, animals used as furniture. I often re-call the idea that our culture has associated to a determined specie, together with the gestures that mostly link us to the animal sphere, such as those connected to food, clothing or sexuality.
The results are installations that make the irrational part of everyone re-emerge, where the opposites ‘false’/’true’, ‘organic’/’inorganic’ live together in a small tragicomic theatre, proposing different faces of everyday life through an unexpected language, completely out of rules.
The grotesque joy emerges from that pagan dimension of nature where the characters are plunged.”
Chiara Lecca
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