What are we? Where do we come from and where are we going? Maja Smrekar’s artistic work revolves around these eternal questions of humanity. The work series K-9_topology, winner of the Golden Nica, consists of the four consecutive projects shown here, which each focus from different perspectives on the essence and the role of human beings and especially the role of a woman in increasingly tough bio political conditions of the present times.
There are 24 million dogs in Mexico, of which 16.8 million (70%) are stray dogs. With this project Berenice Olmedo Peña critically questions our relationship to the canine species: on the one hand the cultivated domestic animal, “man’s best friend,” on the other hand the little appreciated, disrespectfully treated stray dog.