Faculty of Art

Sculpture/Installation

Carmen Mahave

Canis Cervicapir

Canis Cervicapir challenges perceptions of the body by embodying a liminal space between familiar and unsettling, known and unknown. Drawing inspiration from discussions of body autonomy politics, colonial notions of death and birth, and feminist discourse, he disrupts conventional notions of the body in life and death. The amalgamation of lamb, deer, and dog forms invites viewers to confront the complexities of birth, death, pet and meat, and the abjection associated with the body under these conditions. By existing in a state of ambiguity, Canis Cervicapir challenges viewers to navigate the tensions between slaughter and companionship, youth and age, sleep and death. He prompts introspection and compassion, encouraging viewers to confront their own physical interoceptive states as well as whatever biases, judgments and abjections toward the Other that live there.