IS1 Museum Visit

The chosen work is an installation, sculptural piece titled Mes Morts, by Sophie Calle.  It depicts the artist costumed likeness laying among various taxidermy. The setup is inclusive of a giraffe, a zebra, a peacock among many others.  In the summary of the work displayed on the wall, Calle explains her rationality in her choosing of each animal, and the names she has attributed personally to each.  The essence of the exhibition is a reflection of the temporal, on death in relation to life.  Calle draws from the recent death of her father.  A museum dedicated to the substance of the untimely demise of organisms is suitable for Calle to focus on such a theme.  Where there is life there is death, and in this exhibition where there is death we are also presented with a construed sense of life.

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