Bêtes de style / Animals with Style

Over the last few years the attention paid to animals, particularly domestic animals, in western culture has reached extraordinary dimensions. There is not a newspaper, magazine, television programme, radio broadcast or other type of discourse that does not place the animal at the centre of current

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events , a trend that often borders on the absurd, such is the extend to which animals are invoked on all sorts of subjects, generally directly generated by our human preoccupations.

(Abstract from prologue by director Chantal Prod'Hom and co-curator Magali Moulinier)

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