Sow’s Honor

2019
solo exhibition at King’s Leap Projects, Brooklyn, NY


In 1386, the tribunal of Falaise sentenced a sow to be mangled and maimed in the head and forelegs and then to be hanged, for having torn the face and the arms of a child thus causing its death. As if to make the travesty of justice complete, the sow was dressed in man’s clothes and executed on the public square near the city-hall at an expense of ten sous and ten deniers, besides a pair of gloves to the hangman. The executioner was provided with new gloves in order that he might come from the discharge of his duty, metaphorically at least, with clean hands, thus indicating that, as a minister of justice, he incurred no guilt in shedding blood. 
- E.P. Evans, Criminal Prosecution and Capital Punishment of Animals (1906)





Lex Talionis, 2019, glazed ceramics, rope, scale and steel chain, 205.7 x 71 x 23 cm

detail of Lex Talionis, 2019


detail of Lex Talionis, 2019

detail of Lex Talionis, 2019


detail of Lex Talionis, 2019


Sainte-Trinité I: Tortured, 2019, steel, soil, plaster putty, acrylic and digital print on canvas, 35.5 x 28 cm


Sainte-Trinité II: Consumed, 2019, steel, soil, plaster putty, acrylic and digital print on canvas, 35.5 x 28 cm


Sainte-Trinité III: Wasted, 2019, steel, soil, plaster putty, acrylic and digital print on canvas, 35.5 x 28 cm




detail of Humiliation Ritual, 2019 plaster, wood composite, polymer clay, chalk paint and mud residue, 25.5 x 51 cm


Sow’s Honor Library, 2019, found faux-wooden shelf and chain, 12.7 x 122 x 16.5 cm


Humiliation Ritual, 2019 plaster, wood composite, polymer clay, chalk paint and mud residue, 25.5 x 51 cm

KAT SCHNEIDER. BERLIN, DEUTSCHLAND. 90039—3414