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Kat Schneider, Sow’s Honor (2019). Exhibition view. Image courtesy the artist + King’s Leap, New York.
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Kat Schneider, Lex Talionis (2019). Installation view. Image courtesy the artist + King’s Leap, New York.
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Kat Schneider, Lex Talionis (2019). Installation view. Image courtesy the artist + King’s Leap, New York.
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Kat Schneider, Sainte-Trinité III: Wasted (2019). Installation view. Image courtesy the artist + King’s Leap, New York.
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Kat Schneider, Humiliation Ritual (2019). Installation view. Image courtesy the artist + King’s Leap, New York.
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Kat Schneider, Sainte-Trinité II: Consumed (2019). Installation view. Image courtesy the artist + King’s Leap, New York.
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Punishment & the body inverted in the mixed media reimagining of a medieval animal execution for Kat Schneider’s Sow’s Honor

, 26 June 2019
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Kat Schneider‘s Sow’s Honor solo exhibition was on at Brooklyn’s King’s Leap, running April 19 to May 19.

Kat Schneider, Sow’s Honor (2019). Exhibition view. Image courtesy the artist + King’s Leap, New York.

Through sculpture and installation, along with an imagined court transcript, the show retells the true anecdote of a sow (female swine) executed in 14th century France for killing a child, in which the animal was dressed in human clothes for its hanging. Exploring themes around the performativity of punishment, visibility and the gendered body, Sow’s Honor uses stark medieval iconography alluding to this culturally loaded tale.

As noted in the press release: “Punishment is our preferred purification strategy. Subsisting largely on female flesh, we hoard means to reclaim control. Animal trials are financed by human desires. The verdict is the body inverted; nature hangs in the balance. Justice is served and you’re on the menu.”**

Kat Schneider’s exhibition Sow’s Honor, was on view at King’s Leap, New York from from April 19 to May 19, 2019.

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