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Dying for Art
Take a good look at the pictures above. This is not clever photo editing, this is someone killing animals in the name of 'art'. The perpetrator is Nathalia Edenmont from Yalta in the former Soviet Union. She apparently kills the animals herself shortly before composing her 'art'. She is currently holding an exhibition of her work in Sweden at the Wetterling Gallery where you can read a 'justification' for what she does. While you're on the site why not click on the 'contact us' button and let them know what you think of Edenmont's pictures. Why not contact your local Swedish Embassy and let them know your thoughts about Edenmont? Use a search engine to find the one in your country. You can email the UK Swedish Embassy by clicking here The Chisenhale Gallery in London also exhibit her work. Not impressed? Then let them know. Email the gallery. Aftonbladet is a Swedish newspaper where you can see more of her 'art'. The following is an email received by Ooze Online from the Wetterling Gallery on December 17 2003. Dear Animal Friends, The work by Nathalia Edenmont that we (The Wetterling Gallery) are currently exhibiting position within the same ethical and legal regulations that constitutes our society in whole. Every day, animals are sacrificed to end up as decorations on jackets or on a meat stack in order to stabilize our economy. Edenmont is asking us whether we think the over consumption of our affluent western society is civilized. Edenmont explores the moral and ethical structures and she is careful to move within what the law permits. This is not for arts sake! She is not exploring what art permit, that is already constituted, she is provoking the laws of society. If you find it immoral, you see exactly what Edenmonts is trying to point out to you. Her message to you is to think critically, and see through conventions and shams that lead to unreasonable injustice to animal and man. It saddens me that you have "blacklisted" our exhibition on your respected website. You have drawn conclusions from articles in less valued newspapers. The animals that were used for the installations were bred to be snakefood, or simply "put away" as they were not wanted anymore by the petowners. Please don’t try to battle those that fight for the same good cause! Best regards, Ebba Setterblad See what our readers think of Nathalia Edenmont and her 'works of art'. Visit our You Write page
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