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Marvelous
Creatures
Wago Kreider
MiniDV, 3.5 minutes
From the taxidermied bestiary
of a natural history museum to the lifelike waxworks that haunt
our pop culture memories, the convulsive beauty of animals oscillates
between plenitude and punishment, attraction and repulsion, life
and death. In a series of photographic shocks that flash an image
of the fixed-explosive, Marvelous Creatures signal the uncanny
correlation of erotic and destructive impulses. They bear witness
to a primordial trauma, a confusion between the animate and the
inanimate, the biological and the mechanical, Eros and Thanatos.
First
shown in Hello!
Video 12. |
