summaery2019: Projects
GO INSIDE THE SLAUGHTERHOUSE
Project information
submitted by
Julia Albrecht
Mentors
Prof. Stephan Jacobs
Faculty:
Art and Design
Degree programme:
Media Art and Design -Study programme Media Art und Design (MAD) (english) (Master of Fine Arts (M.F.A.))
Type of project presentation
Exhibition
Semester
Summer semester 2019
- Amalienstraße 13
(Keller basement)
Links
http://www.albrechtjulia.de
Contributors:
Kreativfond 2019
Project description
In German, a white horse is referred to as a “Schimmel”, implying something which is full of mildew or rot. Many white horses become afflicted with equine melanoma and often die from the disease. Initially unnoticed within, the cancer in its final stages of malignance reveals itself in the orifices of the animal.
Aesthetic beauty is an amalgamation of subjective values and forms which are pleasing to the senses. The photographs suggest a relationship between death and beauty. When a fetid body is rendered beautiful, wherein lies the repulsiveness?
At the center of these photographs, the Schimmel is as a metaphor for quotidian paradox; from the realm of personal affairs to broader considerations of contemporary society and coaxial allegories of mortality.