Journal | Lagoonscapes
Monographic journal issue | 4 | 2 | 2024
Research Article | Mourning the Mounted: An Analysis of the Taxidermy Exhibition Dead Animals with a Story
Mourning the Mounted: An Analysis of the Taxidermy Exhibition Dead Animals with a Story
Abstract
This article analyzes the taxidermy exhibition Dead Animals with a Story located in the Natural History Museum of Rotterdam in order to discover the subversive potentiality of taxidermy. Through granting the taxidermy animals subjectivity, by recognizing human and non-human kinship, and by creating accountability towards animal suffering, Dead Animals with a Story sets the stage for the animals to be deemed grievable. This points to the potential of the exhibition to reshape pre-established social and cultural boundaries between the human and the animal, which becomes ever so important in a world marked by extinction and loss.
Submitted: June 23, 2024 | Accepted: July 27, 2024 | Published Dec. 6, 2024 | Language: en
Keywords Mourning • Human-animal relationship • New taxidermy • Taxidermy • Animal Studies
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Permalink http://doi.org/10.30687/LGSP/2785-2709/2024/02/009
