Description
Photomontage screenprint, acrylic on Fabriano Rosaspina printmaking paper 285 gsm, 50 x 70 cm.
The largest CAFO [Concentrated Animal Feeding Operation] pig farm in the world is in Ezhou China. It is 26 stories high and can produce 1.2 million pigs for market each year. The amount of air, water and soil pollution these industries produce is astonishing, enough to bring down Governments – See Communist Pigs by Thomas Fleischman 2020. The level of animal husbandry is so compromised that these operations are off limits to the public.
British artist Banksy’s 2003 exhibition “Turf Wars” explored these themes, placing live farm animals painted with various motifs on display. “Fuck Pigs” was spray painted in red letters across the belly of a young pig on exhibit. The level of callousness that society shows towards these social, gentle animals is unconscionable. To me, Banksy’s work highlighted this disregard in ways that other forms of protest have been unable to – whether it was his intention or not.
I have taken the silhouette of Banksy’s pig and placed it in various landscapes, here she has swallowed the Ezhou factory tower and is pictured in repeat, 26 stories high.
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