Flying Un-bird
© 2000

Description: A pig on a leafless tree on a drawer.
Materials: Painted wood
Size: 40 x 40 x 180 cm

"Something may do what is characteristic of something else, but because it's not in its nature, it's bound to fail."

No Way To Run
(Nggak Bisa Lari)
© 2000

Description: A rooster in a bag.
Materials: Painted wood, fake fur.
Size: 60 x 20 x 30 cm
Note: Display on pedestal.

"People used to carry roosters in bags that were designed to disable them. They cannot move inside those bags, until they are released -- usually to fight one another for some money the owners gamble away. Gambling and cruelty to animals at once!If this isn't bad, what is?"

A Kid For The Soup
(Sup Kambing Muda)
© 2000

Description: A lamb stands inside a bowl with vegetables.
Materials: Painted fiberglass, painted wood.
Size: 31 cm (d), 31 (ht)
Note: Display on pedestal

"Humans are the biggest omnivoraes ever! We literally eat almost everything, and we, metaphorically speaking, gobbled up everything else as well! From plants to animals, to things like money and companies to acquisite, to the 'homo homini lupus' acts -- that was my thought while devising this work."

1000 Chicks Come To Nothing
( Anak Ayam Turun Seribu)
© 2000

Description:
Chickens of many colors in a pushcart.
Materials:
Painted fiberglass, painted iron
Size:
Chicks: @ 30 x 16 x 25 cm; Cage: 63 x 54 x 31 cm; Cart: 65 x 55 x 75 cm

"This sculpture has a rather long train of thought before it was manifested. I will quote from an essay written by a friend about the Animaux! exposition. It is a humorist essay, but nevertheless it captured my thoughts on the making of this work. And it is from this work that I proceeded to manifest the whole set of Animaux!."

Your Ears Gotcha
(Gara-gara Bertelinga Panjang)
© 2000

Description:
A rabbit caught by its ears by a hand (shown to the wrist)
Materials: Painted wood
Size: 26 x 16 x 48 cm
Note: Display on pedestal

"There are many things that humans do to other beings, like animals, that are wrong and completely disregarding EVERYTHING that is not his or her own state of mind. Rabbits, for instance, just because they have such long pair of ears, we carry them by grabbing at the ears -- this is the wrong way to carry them, yet we do it nonetheless. Long tails too, have been treated as if those are strings of ropes. We just do not venture outside our own false assumptions and we are unwilling to get out, open up, and understand other beings."

Eat Eater Eaten
(Makan Dimakan)
© 2000

Description:
A duck with an egg in its beak.
Materials:
Painted wood, painted fiberglass
Size: 16 x 17 x 45 cm
Note: Display on pedestal

"Animals have some instincts that make them do something horrifying to humans, simply because we do not understand why they do what they do. Hens, for example. They eat their own eggs, and we say it is cruelty. But in fact they do that because they know that a particular egg will not develop into a healthy chicken. This is not cruelty. We eat both eggs and hens and ducks, who is cruel then? We give them things to eat just so we can eat them when they become fat enough."

Photos of the Animaux! sculptures displayed here and used at the exhibition banners and catalogue are by Dwi 'Oblo' Prasetyo, © 2000 Dwi 'Oblo' Prasetyo, Jogja, Indonesia

Essay and sketch of Animaux! here and used at the exhibition catalogue are by NIN © 2000 NIN, Jogja, Indonesia & Hamburg, Germany

Others that helped me making the sculptures: Mardi, Tulus, Basuki, Tri, Santo, and furniture shop Pasti Jaya, Jogjakarta, Indonesia