The Lives of Animals

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“It is true that animals are usually not able to participate in their liberation, but they behave differently when they are liberated and have better living conditions.”
— Speaking Beyond Language: Lin May Saeed Interviewed

Dafna Maimon

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08 June - 22 September 2024
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Dafna Maimon is an artist who lives and works in Berlin, Germany and Tammisaari, Finland. She works with performance, sculpture and video, and immerses her audience in absurd, vis­ceral worlds. She is fascinated by a form of corporeal intelligence that, particu­larly in the West, has become dormant through the centuries. The borderline between humans and animals is a re­current theme in her work. For example, she developed a workshop where partici­pants move as a group and imitate a dog walking with its carer, and she created a short film in which a group of prehistoric humans was discovered living in a young woman’s wisdom tooth. 

For the series of sculptures An Ode to my Captives (2022–ongoing), Maimon used the hair that her cats Marvin and Lewis shed every day. Maimon believes that observing cats can immerse you entirely in the present moment, which might be a reason for the immense popularity of cat videos on the internet. 

© image: M HKA

Exhibited work: 

An Ode to My Captives (Bathing, Gazing), 2022–lopend
Courtesy Dafna Maimon

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