The Pig Trilogy

   Astrid Kogler's project 'Pig Trilogy' takes its substance three dead pigs, and then published three books entitled 'Ossa', 'Corpus', and 'Carnis', all of which are Latin words for Bone, Body, and Meat/Flesh. Some of the documentation shows part of the slaughtering process, yet the main body of her work is formed by images or the resulting body fragments were then photograped individually against a monochrome background, in the case of 'Orssa' and 'Carnis' it was white and black for 'Corpus'.
    The images constituting Carnis and Ossa have strong connections to the spaces where dead animals enter our daily life. In Corpus, the subject doesn't corresponds with the food industry nor dissection for scientific purposes.

 


   In the 'Corpus' series shown above, reminds me of satellite
images of  places or aerial views of the earth. In attempting to decipher one of the innards from the next, adds a vision of the already acquired bias of it looking similar to the surface of a planet, the green parts become images of forests or fields while others appear to be farm land or marshes with lakes and extinguished volcanic craters.
   Such as the first image I have shown of the pigs head sliced in half his photograph behaves in a similar way to a close up of a face: a portrait. A face with unrecognisable eyes or ears. A faceless head or a de-formed face.

What is fascinating to us as viewers is a presence of that  which is no longer exists while haunting us in the realisation of the temporality of our own existence.

 These images assume a death that is far removed from the bloody images of the slaughterhouse that we all imagine and closer to the lifelessness of the distorted beauty an intrigue of the different parts of a pigs insides.


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