Drypoint Print: Cristina Daniela Gagiu Storyteller: Oana Maroti
Horn trade, a very absurd story, a monstrous tale of abuse.
Rhinoceros populations are in extinction because of their horns that people look for believing that it´s some kind of cure. Unfortunately is the same as eating nails, as the horns are basically keratin and nothing else.
Fake medicinal beliefs, used by someone who makes a profit lead quite fast to fatalities. In the rhinoceros case, the unscientific beliefs provoke the extinction of species.
Trends are strong impulses of group behavior and, of course, those who set them or sustain them for immediate benefit play a dangerous and irremediable game. Our chain of imitative behavior and suggestive personalities create instability in nature.
The artist calls upon the head-to-head fight, a mental collaboration that can turn things around. If we have so much power to do horrible, irreversible things then we might reorientate that energy to do some good stuff too.
For the moment the lack of coordination makes us easy to manipulate and appear like in a totally absurd theatre play, but a very lame one because in the end keratin ingestion won´t help, and neither animal furs won´t make anyone more beautiful (it´s just a lie, it looks terrible).
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The x sign made by those two horns during the fight , is the significant of the presence. Is a nostalgic trace of our life on the earth. My rhino is just a mith of a beautiful animal stubborn to stay here, the fireman of the woods, the last soldier of nature.
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