Pause and Reflect: The Sydney Biennale

This made me stop and look. I think, with all my love of stuffed animals and rabbit photos, that this I do not like at all.

The curators want me to be shocked. From The Vine:

“Tourists wandering through Sydney’s streets today might
wonder if the city has gone slightly mad. In fact these works are
part of the 16th Biennale of Sydney, which has filled seven venues
with art from more than 180 contemporary artists from around the
world.

If viewers are confused, the Biennale’s artistic director,
Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, will have succeeded. “I was looking for
artworks I don’t fully understand, art that raises more questions
than it answers,” she said. ‘It is when we are confused that our
minds start to work.’ 

This year’s theme, Revolutions – Forms That Turn, urges artists
to rebel. The stuffed horse is a 1999 work by the Italian artist
Maurizio Cattelan. Christov-Bakargiev sees the stiff horse as a
metaphor for thwarted revolution.

‘At certain historical periods there is always a moment of
social despair where people are no longer able to tolerate the pain
and hardship of their times,’ she said. ‘I think we are at a stage
where the world has to invent new political systems to protect the
weak in society due to the great inequalities that globalisation
has caused.’ “

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I am confused, but my mind tells me nothing. Does yours?

*Muffins, please note before you comment, that this is a taxidermied, un-alive horse. Now you may do your worst.