Osservatorio della Periferia dell'Arte

Irony is important because then, when you look in the eyes of this rabbit; in the eyes of the rabbit before it’s to be slaughtered, you feel that there’s this – this sacrifice.

You feel that there is someone losing it’s life to feed another.

– Therefore, there’s this unawareness – right? – that really moves one to pity.

– So in some way you understand that in all of this – in this whole situation that is always a bit dramatic – there is also irony.

– Because the irony becomes rabbit-skin glue. Irony becomes the skin of the rabbit that then gets transformed [into rabbit-skin glue].

– So the rabbit is seized and then cooked – eaten and enjoyed, no?

1:02 – That is to say, in the midst of death – but then after death there’s a continuation that is extremely ironic, because in the end – this sensation of continuity is stronger than irony.

- It’s precisely this fact that it all doesn’t finish in a single act, but that there’s a continuation, a continuation, and so in this case I say that it is ironic.

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– The idea is to hear this roar of the rabbit, that is in reality the roar of all animals that are sacrificed by man.

– In this case the rabbit is a life that is sacrificed to become food to be eaten.

– But in reality, in the end the installation is an example of mortality.

– And because to me it connects to the concept of the massacre – of people during wartime.

– That in some way, just as we kill rabbits, which for a person who lives in the country is totally natural

– It gives me the impression that it’s become quite natural for us to watch people dying on the television – and even by the hundreds – without even being troubled by it.

- Thus with this installation I just wanted to make people reflect for a moment, and to recover something of the meaning of blood and of death: through the example of an animal.

– Of course, I’m a meat-eater; I’m not vegetarian.

- But what is important is to cut down quite a bit on that assembly-line presentation that we find in the supermarkets, and also to cut down on consumption.

– Because that meat often goes to waste. It’s not necessary.

– And this, too, serves as an inquiry that can be done in the general context of the performance – or of the installation, itself.

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– We often find ourselves criticizing; judging – no? – to condemn – no? – certain acts, certain things, without being aware that we, ourselves, are the actors in this drama that, obviously, I see as being extremely ironic.

- Because, really – and I’ll specify that this is according to my opinion – I lived this experience with a great deal of irony.

- When I got over the decisive moment of death – of the killing of the rabbit where you look in it’s eyes and obviously you feel a bit – really quite a bit – guilty, even though you’re not the one using the knife.

- However, then, in the end – afterwards I say: “It’s okay - after all this is part of life.”

- It’s the form through which we are living; through which we are interacting.

- Therefore, it’s all ironic.... In the end it all becomes almost easy – if we overcome this moment of death, no?

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