Failures Shrine
By
Peter Hanmer
2013 - 2014
George Skipper
- Mixed Media
- Sculpture
- Sculpture
- Fantasy
- Satire
- Ideology
- Capitalism
- Bones
- Ruin
- Animals
- Death
- Environment
- Studio Practice
- Exhibition
Dimensions
151 x 123 x 73cm (plinth included in measurement)
Medium: Various Animal bones, slate, fools gold, soil and other mixed media
This piece examines unfettered capitalism, as the philosopher Slavoj Zizek says the expansion of capital is like a ‘strange perverted duty’ anything can be sacrificed ‘up to our lives up to nature’.
George Skipper
George Skipper
George Skipper
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