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Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Nadia Kaabi-Linke, Butcher Bliss (Fleischerei Gluck), 2010

Nadia Kaabi-Linke b. 1978

Butcher Bliss (Fleischerei Gluck), 2010
Porcelain, chrome plated metal hooks, metallic bar
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A recurrent trait in the work of Nadia Kaabi-Linke is a media translation of things that are negatively understood to create beautiful objects of powerful visual attraction. Butcher Bliss (Fleischerei...
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A recurrent trait in the work of Nadia Kaabi-Linke is a media translation of things that are negatively understood to create beautiful objects of powerful visual attraction.
Butcher Bliss (Fleischerei Gluck) is an installation of porcelain casts of stomach linings of cows.

"I became aware of the butcher's shops in Tunisia, where freshly cut meat and bleeding animal heads are hung next to the shop doors. This bizarre spectacle is proof of quality, as long as blood drips out of it, people believe the meat to be fresh. The names of the butcher's shops like 'Joy' or 'Peace' were also noteworthy. My casts of stomach linings combine beauty and violence, since slaughtering a cow then stretching and drying the stomach are in fact violent and destructive acts. At the same time, the stomach linings of cows are very beautiful- honeycomb stomachs, for example, have a very fine ornamental structure that looks like arabesques. I think demonstrating violence by aggressive means is redundant. I would rather work with polar opposites: the more aggressive an act, the more beautiful it should be"
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Tatort, curated by Jamila Adeli, Galerie Christian Hosp, Berlin 2010

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