(polyurethane, wax, leather, rubber, 2016-2017)
The research explores ‘hybrid-humans’ with augmentative chimeric limbs.
By adapting ideas from the animal world, the project studied, copied and rearranged the appearance and function of specific creatures, in order to seek an analogy in terms of engineering and design, with a focus on static appendages in animals such as tusks and horns. Through the hybrid-augmentations exploring the limits of human “plasticity”, the research looked into how we might adapt—mentally and physically—to having additional limbs added to our bodies.
Could we live with alternative chimeric-embodiments? Could we change the biological body representation and expression through animal-like body-augmentation?
“Taurus” presents a trophy horns, as a symbol of mankind’s display of power and dominance over nature. By upsetting this hierarchy, the trophy horns are not an animal part anymore but rather of a fellow human, displayed as a trophy wall-sculpture.
Photo by Ana Rajcevic
Model: Otti Reynolds