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Making art that expresses care for animals by carving it out of material that if left uncared for would quickly degrade and release poisons to harm those animals depicted is sort like selling artworks as pulled-pin grenades in a puppy shelter, "here, would you mind holding this?" Sort of expressing the suicide games pretty much everyone believes we're playing now in the anthropocene's foot-to-the-pedal towards brick walls type of time period. Why not take a grenade home, why not bring back some of this asbestos to protect the earth if not your home, these animals need you.
See too: Cooper Jacoby at Freedman Fitzpatrick, Piero Gilardi at Frankfurt Am Main, “May the Bridges I Burn Light the Way” at STANDARD, Nancy Lupo at Antenna Space, 3 Shows: Julia Scher Lin May Saeed, Fernando Palma Rodriguez
