Artists for Human Rights: Video Artists

animystic eyeconic condestruction by Mari

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The Japanese artist Mari explores ideas of anamistic iconic deconstruction.

The relationships between human life and animal life are not always obvious.

How animals are treated in modern societies varies from culture to culture with only one consistency; our own self obsession, our all consuming anthropocentric viewpoint. Perhaps in Buddhism we find a sense of equivilance, an idea of sameness, an understanding that life is a shared experience whilst form is just an expression of structure.

But in the monotheist religions, Judaism, Christianity and Islam, there exists that idea of separation from the natural world, the belief that the human animal is in a fundamental way superior to all of the other animal forms.

All of these ideas can be challenged when the visual images of being human are animalised, when our own iconic mirror in which our anthropocentric eye sees not animal reflects our deepest animal nature.