Rodney Glick and Lynnette Voevodin
I Love Animals and Most of Nature - Feral Camel
2008
Tanned pelt, artificial flowers
30 x 450 x 500cm
In the new work, I love animals and most of nature Glick and Voevodin have placed the pelts of feral animals a cat, fox, boar and camel in the gallery simultaneously exhibiting them as both specimen and trophy. The artwork builds on past design and manufacture of domestic furniture in which the feral animal pelts hint at landscape, oppression, hardship and death. The various flowers placed on the pelts shifts meaning away from the actual objects opening up opportunities for contemplation on other aspects surrounding our existence. The imagery of feral animals raises questions about the interdependence of man and beast implying a masculine violence behind a mask of heroic conquest.