Aldrovandi Remembers Them references Aldrovandi Alddeer’s drawing (15th c) which features a deer with strange, cornucopia-esque antlers. The deer’s skin is composed of old family photographs. The taxidermy form lends an air of the “scientific”, just as the source drawing by Aldrovandi was made in the vein of scientific illustration. Taxidermy practice also alludes to society’s trophy- and luxury items-based relationship to animals, and the resulting damage of animal populations. Extinction is the permanent relegation of a species to the status of memory.

Aldrovandi’s Alddeer Remembers Them, 1642 & 1950s, 2019 // Mixed media on taxidermy foam mannequin // 150 x 57 x 36 cm