Becoming Animals, 2020-2021
Archival pigment prints
each 357*500mm
In this photographic work, Becoming Animals, she reflects on human-animal relations from the perspective of life and Death that she gains from the scenery of life in the photographs, including animal collections and electronic measuring devices.
The qualities of life that seem alive are captured and homogeneous with those of sparkling machines, and Death, which belongs to nature, is absent here. The photographic images’ colors, shapes, and materials are not connected to life or Death. Thus, the world created by humans is like a fuzzy dream. Kawai considers whether it would be possible to approach animals by homogenizing with them from the perspective of the absent nature inherent in these photographs.
© 2022 Tomoko Kawai. Berlin
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