Tamed Creatures TROY EMERY
“Endangered animals in zoos and taxidermy animals with the natural history museum setting are tokens of ecological ruination. Their very display is often a lesson in their own demise”
mery’s life-size sculptures of animal forms include the usual domesticated subjects of dogs and cats but are also joined by ones that were considered ‘wild’ such as sloths, lions and foxes. The sculptures are often presented in bright colours, seen in the vibrant pink , 2020, and assume postures that are unsettlingly familiar, as if they could shift and breathe life at any moment. These forms however are composed of intricately placed layers and layers of textile, not flesh
