- Venue
- Sheffield Institute of Arts Gallery
- Starts
- Friday, February 18, 2011
- Ends
- Sunday, March 20, 2011
- Address
- Sheffield Institute of Arts Gallery, Furnival Building, Sheffield Hallam University, 153 Arundel Street, Sheffield, S1 2NU
- Location
- Yorkshire
The Animal Gaze examines new ways in which animals appear in contemporary art and the ethics and aesthetics such practice may be subject to. Representations of animals that regularly appear elsewhere in the visual culture of our own species are avoided (no animals as decoration, nor status symbols and vehicles for ancient mythology or totemic ritual). Instead, The Animal Gaze shows stances outside anthropocentrism, deconstructions of species taxonomy, constructions of the idea of difference and documentation of the consequences of indifference.
