Kenia Nárez

In the 19th century, one of the main discussions in biology was whether the characteristics of change could be handed down to one’s offspring or when the transformation matrix was accidental.
What was actually under discussion was a more subtle issue that had to do with the capacity of our perception to attribute human characteristics to animated creatures which, in turn, reflected our own and established a distance between mankind and animals. The tests of viability and transformation were more a reflection of the will to see in them the effort, wear and tear and sacrifice we expect in ourselves and the fact that work will lead to improvement, adornment will pave the way for beauty and a combination of the two will lead to love…
When Kenia Nárez works with these small, “intervened” animals, rather than an exercise in “gore,” which only a superficial interpretation could invoke, I feel we are witnessing a game of enunciation along the lines of what we described earlier. Rabbits and at some point, their clothes acquire an inner life.
source: The rabbit is dead…
by Gustavo Prado/zonezero