Animality – Women, Animals and Instinct
An Exhibition by Photographer and Artist Casey Orr
“The Animal Library – Women, Animals and Instinct” examines how Nature and Culture intertwine and explores the different relationships women have with animals; the cultural understanding of the language of women, the histories of women and nature, and our relationship to animals and our animal selves through photographs and reproductions of the books and library artefacts.
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I was photographed along with 10 other women who embody what she hopes to explore and communicate – an understanding of culture as not separate from nature but that the two are intertwined; both integral to a definition what it is to be human.
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The dictionary definition of ‘animality’ reads: ‘the animal nature of human beings.’
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1st December 2015 – 9th January 2016
“THE ANIMAL LIBRARY- WOMEN, ANIMALS, INSTINCT”
Leeds City Central Library, in the City Center.
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