TABOO - TRANSGRESSION - TRANSCENDENCE

15’ 44’’

Annihilation explores edibility, emerging from the seductive allure of animal flesh, is disguised as the aestheticization and ethical consumption of corpses, transcending the brutality of slaughter while reinforcing capitalist hierarchies. Drawing on Amber Husain’s Meat Love, I explore the slaughter of pigs as a metaphor for the exploitation of human and non-human bodies within capitalist systems. This process sanitizes death, masking its inherent violence and normalizing the exploitation of all living beings. The question arises: How can we, as semi-posthuman beings, dismantle and reconfigure the normalized subjectivity of slaughter?