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Through the lens of more than 300 glass anim­als, the exhib­i­tion explores the complex and ambi­val­ent nature of our rela­tion­ship with living beings. The diversity of forms, expres­sions and beha­viours attrib­uted to the anim­als reflects both our curi­os­ity and desire to under­stand our envir­on­ment, and our wish to master its repres­ent­a­tion and domest­ic­a­tion.

A film reveal­ing Pierre Rosen­ber­g’s palazzo in Venice has been specially produced for the occa­sion. The glass anim­als appear there in the envir­on­ment they inhabit, that of their collector, who has taken care to posi­tion them in every corner of the archi­tec­ture, so that they permeate the atmo­sphere of the place entirely.

By placing this besti­ary within the museum – a space dedic­ated to preserving, clas­si­fy­ing and exhib­it­ing objects – mudac rein­ter­prets the conven­tions of the display case in order to subvert them. The gaze shifts from the animal being observed to the human who observes it, reveal­ing the very mech­an­isms that under­pin our ambigu­ous rela­tion­ship.