The Proper Animal // Press Release

Spring’08 season-long multidisciplinary program comprised of three successive solo exhibitions. All three participating artists utilize highly original and sometimes disturbing animal iconography which inevitably brings ethical considerations into play.

PART 2
April 17 - May 24, 2008

Opening Reception:
Thursday, April 17, 6-8pm

Tamara Kostianovsky
Actus Reus
In her solo debut exhibition, Tamara Kostianovsky extends the cold human gaze to killing. Methodically dissected beef carcasses made out of discarded human clothes are both ethically and aesthetically disturbing. The intense reality of the opened body cannot stop the humans from looking at the killed animal. The looker is not the killer, and some of the power in the relationship therefore lies with the looked-at thing, dead though it is. more