May 21st, 2008 | Art survey

Art duo Brody and paetau use real dog corpses to demonstrate against the practice of turning animals into rug.

"The dog carpets are essentially about society’s hypocrisy. It questions the special status that dogs and cats have in our, western society. It’s about the tradition of producing carpets with wild animals as a hunting fetish. But in this case we were using an inappropriate animal, a pet - and like this we wanted to question the values behind this tradition", Brody and paetau explaining their work




Poll: Dog Carpets


Dog Carpets


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