OCULAR WITNESS – Schweinebewusstsein

What on earth are we doing to pigs? “Man, however, in returning the gaze of an animal, becomes aware of himself,” writes John Berger. What does that mean for us, what do we learn about ourselves and our relationship to the world around us when we reflect on our relationship to pigs? Ocular witness: SCHWEINEBEWUSSTSEIN is a polyphonic, multi-perspectival research project. Sixteen artists were invited to address individual aspects of the question posed above. The majority of the photographs, videos and sculptural and installation works on show were developed specially for this project. With poetic and artistic wilfulness, the works address questions of economics, everyday consumption, animal welfare, ecology and the promises for the future bound up with the industrialisation of agriculture. Works by Max Baumann, Frank Berger, Felix Bielmeier, Pierre Bismuth, Anetta Mona Chişa & Lucia Tkáčová, Anna Haifisch, Jochen Lempert, Arne Schmitt, Wenke Seemann, Maria Sewcz, Heidi Specker, Andrzej Steinbach, Maria Sturm and Young-Hae Chang Heavy Industries, among others.

Exhibition:
Sprengel Museum Hannover, 23/8 – 5/11/2023