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Summer Reading – The Post-Human Animal

Katja Novitskova, Branching I, 2013, Digital print on aluminium and cut-out display (courtesy: the artist, Fluxia gallery, Milan & Kraupa-Tuskany Zeidler, Berlin)

For the final entry in our Summer Reading series, we bring you Ana Teixeira Pinto’s essay on the recent trend in artworks featuring animals. She notes: “Replacing an obsolete notion of the ‘human,’ perhaps the animal has become the new face of humanity.” This article was originally published in issue 19 of Frieze d/e in May 2015. In the late 1940s, the Russian-born French philosopher Alexandre[…..]