'Why Look at Animals? A Case for the Rights of Non-Human Lives' is a major group exhibition that centres on animal rights and animal well-being, highlighting the need to recognise and defend the lives of non-human animals in an anthropocentric world that marginalises, oppresses and brutalises them. The exhibition is inspired by the seminal text of the same name by John Berger, "Why Look at Animals?" (1980), which explores the animal-human relationship in modernity and how animals have become marginalised in human societies. With the participation of more than 60 artists from four continents among them is also Igor Grubić and with over 200 works occupying all the floors of the Museum, 'Why Look at Animals?' is the largest exhibition ever organized by EMΣT and the first major exhibition on non-human animal rights internationally.
Image: Tiziana Pers, Saut dans le vide, 2016 (video still). Courtesy of the artist.
