Green of Schweinfurt . 2024
In Animal Methods, Dekyndt presents a new body of work with which she explores the comparisons and differences between animals and humans, or, to be more precise, animalistic features within humans and manners within animals. These explorations should be considered against the backdrop of the lasting Ukraine war, as well as other ever-escalating conflicts of today. With the works, Dekyndt reflects on how violence found in the animal kingdom merely occurs to protect a small piece of territory or for nutrition. Going to war to revenge a people in all sorts of cruel ways or actively expand territory is a deeply violent characteristic predominantly reserved for humans.
Léon Kruijswijk
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