Browse Exhibits (4 total)

Boundaries define and divide, yet their fragility reveals a deeper truth: the systems that create them are built to serve power or ego, not reality. By examining the utilization of nonhuman animals at the intersections of human nature, colonialism, and capitalism, this exhibition reveals how systemic classifications reinforce artificial divisions across biota; it is ultimately a critique of the methods by which taxonomy perpetuates divisions, labeling and defining creatures in processes that ignore the fluidity of identity. With a meditation on Confessions of a Shinagawa Monkey, Good Hunting, and Okja, the exhibition highlights the paradoxes within systems that rely on categorization and reflects on how nonhuman animals in these works serve as allegories for dismantling the rigid systems of systematics. These nonhuman characters embody the fluidity of identity, suggesting that boundaries are not fixed but are instead arbitrary human constructs. This understanding of fluidity unravels the certainty of taxonomy; the identities we create are not for comprehension but for biotic manipulation and subjugation.