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Pieces of Meat Art

Summary/Abstract: Sue Coe, an English artist, said that animal slaughter has become normalized because it was hidden. Plastic-wrapped pieces of meat on supermarket shelves do not resemble living beings. Meat intended for mass consumption is no longer real, while in the contemporary art we can find examples of the reverse. Meat art puts viewers in an uncomfortable situation because what the food industry conceals (killing animals, blood, guts), they can experience directly in an art gallery. It seems that meat in the contemporary art enables symbolic reference to many issues. In my text, I would like to show examples of the use of animals/meat by artists to shock and collide viewers with the Real, as well as to ask them ethical questions.

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