Today@Dal

The Dalhousie Art Gallery is pleased to present the opening reception for the exhibition "Animal" on Thursday 18 October at 8 pm. Curator Corinna Ghaznavi and artists Dagmar Dahle, John McEwan and Lyndal Osborne will be in attendance. Admission is free and everyone is welcome!

"Animal" includes sculpture, installations, book works, photography and video by artists Lois Andison, Kenn Bass, Dagmar Dahle, Tom Dean, Rebecca Diederichs, Arnaud Maggs, John McEwan, Lyndal Osborne, Su Rynard, and An Whitlock. Many of the works in this exhibition explore our relationship with animals as the embodiment of the natural, uncultivated realm, subjected to the scientific methodologies of field observation, specimen collecting and classification (taming, and claiming, by naming) - and experimentation. Other works challenge us to consider the Animal itself as the non-human "other", with abilities and attributes that instill in us feelings of fear, wonder, loathing, and apathy or ambivalence, and what we do to, and for, each other as we 'share' the natural and human environments and impose an evolutionary-based hierarchy of value and worth.

The exhibition continues to Sunday 2 December 2012.