3 months, 3 weeks, 3 days
ACVIC. Centre d'Arts Contemporànies•Sep 28, 2024 — Jan 21, 2025
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Francesc Ruiz’s project 3 months, 3 weeks, 3 days tackles the frictions which occur between animal exploitation, the food and tannery industries, logistics infrastructures, and the natural environment in the plain of Vic and its surrounding areas. The project opens up the already-existing imaginaries drawn from the history of comics, alternative hentai, and anti-speciesist feminism.
At ACVIC we can find a mural which covers the entirety of the two main rooms, where shmoos—a fictional animal species originally created by comic book artist Al Capp in the 1940s—run through the landscapes of the meat industry in the region, the farms, the C-25 motorway, the Balenyà slaughterhouses, the Gurb estate, the Ter river.
Shmoos are characterised by abundance, providing humans with eggs, bottled milk, and butter, and lovingly self-sacrifice so their delicious flesh can be cooked and eaten. Shmoos reproduce very quickly,...More
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3 months, 3 weeks, 3 days
ACVIC. Centre d'Arts Contemporànies•Sep 28, 2024 — Jan 21, 2025
Press Release
Francesc Ruiz’s project 3 months, 3 weeks, 3 days tackles the frictions which occur between animal exploitation, the food and tannery industries, logistics infrastructures, and the natural environment in the plain of Vic and its surrounding areas. The project opens up the already-existing imaginaries drawn from the history of comics, alternative hentai, and anti-speciesist feminism.
At ACVIC we can find a mural which covers the entirety of the two main rooms, where shmoos—a fictional animal species originally created by comic book artist Al Capp in the 1940s—run through the landscapes of the meat industry in the region, the farms, the C-25 motorway, the Balenyà slaughterhouses, the Gurb estate, the Ter river.
Shmoos are characterised by abundance, providing humans with eggs, bottled milk, and butter, and lovingly self-sacrifice so their delicious flesh can be cooked and eaten. Shmoos reproduce very quickly,...More
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