Exhibiting Animals, Exhibiting Humans

Result code in IS VaVaI
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Result on the web
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Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Exhibiting Animals, Exhibiting Humans
Original language description
Catalogue accompanying the Czech presentation at the Venice biennale of art 2024 brings different perspectives on the story of Lenka the first Czechoslovak giraffe. Interpreted through contemporary ecological and decolonial perspectives, the project builds a space for imagining a different way of relating to nature. Lenka the Giraffe was captured in Kenya in 1954 and transported to Prague Zoo to become the very first Czechoslovak giraffe. She survived only two years in captivity, after which her body was donated to the National Museum in Prague where it was exhibited as a museum artefact until 2000. The heart of a giraffe in captivity is twelve kilos lighter, Eva Koťátková’s collaborative project for the Czech representation at the 60th Venice Biennale, reimagines Lenka’s story as a poetic, embodied encounter for the audience, invited collaborators and the artist, but also as a place of critical intervention in the relationship between institutions and the natural world.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year
2024
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Book/collection name
The heart of a giraffe in captivity is twelve kilos lighter
ISBN
9788070358498
Number of pages of the result
7
Pages from-to
41-47
Number of pages of the book
88
Publisher name
Národní galerie v Praze
Place of publication
Praha
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