In Western thinking there is a tendency to accept relationships between nature and culture as well as between animals and humans. In many cases we identify in human beings animal characteristics and we even characterize relationships according to animal traits. But in fact, in Western philosophical thinking animals are a “counter-model” that gives a person legitimacy to think of himself in terms of superiority and allows him a right and control over them. The hierarchy between man and other creatures is ancient. The interval between “man” or more precisely the free white male, and the animal is considered to consist of different stages, with the animal being the lowest creature on the mental scale, gradually rising to “slave” (an object taken from the animal realm) to “woman” (Incomplete man), to “child” (man in process). Even today there are societies that legitimize this hierarchy in everyday life.

The exhibition includes video works whose common theme is humanized animals being part of our cultural world.

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