The Hunting Accidents

Pascal Bernier's works portray a world disenchanted with its own lost innocence, a world which is marred by the violence of science, agriculture, and human desires. His work highlight the roles in which we place animals and the fantasies that animals - whether hunted or farmed, taxidermied or cloned - allow us to dream about ourselves.

His bandaged taxidermied animals from his series labelled (Hunting Accidents) are at once ludicrous and pathetically endearing. On the one hand, the idea of carefully bandaging a stuffed polar bear or penguin is playfully absurd, on the other, the act acknowledges irreparable loss - what has been wounded will never in fact recover despite all our best efforts. The bandaged animals could be poster children for environmental doomsayers:mere tattered shells of their former health, soundness, and beauty which have all beenbeen irrevocably lost. Ultimately Bernier's works are about the merciless blindness inherent in human nature.

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