SALON REAL / VIRTUAL 11# Salon: A NI MAL NI FESTO

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The new exhibition A NI MAL NI FESTO from the series SALON REAL/VIRTUAL
at michaela stock gallery shows different strategies of visualization to make visible the 'overlooked animal' or 'the other' and does not deal with the anthropomorphization of animals or zoomorphization of humans as usual.
The different, artistic confrontations (photography, video, drawing, sculpture, and painting) exploring the relationship between humans and animals and present 'the animal' as an equal counterpart. Although the exhibited works follow one theme, there are quite different confrontations with it. In the process, the animals become objects of contemplation. At the same time, they become actors in movements, they serve not only as a projection surface, but also help to shape the work.
The animal is questioned from political, historical, socio-critical and emotional motives.
The exhibition title A NI MAL NI FESTO is taken from the manifesto written for the exhibition by Ingrid Cogne and María Antonia González Valerio.

SALON REAL / VIRTUAL is an exhibition combination between real vs virtual. Artworks are presented both in a virtual 3D gallery and in the real exhibition space - at Schleifmühlgasse 18. The concept of the salon as a forum for discussions about a virtually staged exhibition is juxtaposed with the classic white cube and questions it at the same time.
There will be weekly salon evenings with the artists in November and December.

A NI MAL NI FESTO
Manifest by Ingrid Cogne and María Antonia González Valerio, 2021

"Is this a place for all animals? How can we become an animal being an animal that is not an animal?
And what about those ones that may eat us? Or that may eat each other? Or that may eat everything that there is? Or that don't want to be here? Or that have already disappeared? Or...? Can animals fall into historical categories? What are animals through history? The invention of themselves via storytelling? Hasn't art been too soft, too polite, too western, too exaggerated, too naïve, too stupid, too capitalist, too fond of the disneylandization of the animal, too ridiculous in its contemporary approach to the animal subject?

There is no such thing as a universal idea of a city. There, the animal also lives.
There is no such thing as a universal idea of an animal. There, the animal also lives.
YOU, fellow animals must strive to make the planet a sustaining place for all beings.
Animalship is needed.