Title: Lin May Saeed : arrival of the animals /
Authors: Saeed, Lin May, 1973-; Wiesenberger, Robert.; Chen, Mel Y.; Mütherich, Birgit.; Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute
Year: 2020
Subjects: Saeed, Lin May, Exhibitions.; Animals in art Exhibitions; Human-animal relationships in art Exhibitions.; Animals in art; Human-animal relationships in art
Abstract: "German artist Lin May Saeed (b. 1973) grapples with the complex entanglements of humans and animals. Her work centers on the nonhuman animal and revisits, revises, or outright invents stories of animal subjugation, liberation, and harmonious cohabitation with humans, combining historical, mythical, and theological narratives with materials such as paper, steel, and Styrofoam. This latter material-easy to acquire and work, yet environmentally violent-receives particularly sustained attention. Empathy, humor, and lightness of touch combine with a radical reimagining of everyday life and a sense of how animality is intertwined with otherness. The catalogue surveys Saeed's formation, work, and thinking, positioning them within a broader discourse on animals and animality in art and culture. Its title suggests the appearance of animals in humans' modern moral consciousness, simultaneous with their departure in the current era of mass extinction"--
Contents: Foreword and acknowledgments -- Speciesism : on the work of Lin May Saeed / Robert Wiesenberger -- Plates -- Fables / Lin May Saeed -- Extracts from The social construction of the other : on the sociological question of the animal / Birgit Mütherich -- The gate and the unreachable / Mel Y. Chen -- Clark collection works -- Installation views -- Checklist -- Exhibition history -- Contributors.