Hide

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NASUS Y RAM, 2065. ‘HIDE’. Commissioned by the Museum of Human Violence in 2065, these works commemorate the closing , 35 years ago, of the last handbag factory in the UK that used nonhuman skin. 

 ‘The Victimless Handbag Workshop’ (eco and sustainable fabrics). Participants, in this fiction, are encouraged to make and use bags metaphorically as ‘holders’ of trauma both pre- and during Rupture.  

‘Hide’ (Steel. Mixed media drawings. Found objects). 

A steel pen was used pre-Rupture to cage nonhumans, often prior to slaughter. Visitors are invited to sit in the cage and to look inside the ‘coffee table’ book which has been deconstructed to draw attention to excesses of the era, alongside the horrors of the skin industry. 

‘Time-Line’ (Eco vinyl) indicates significant events leading from the Consumocene through to our Age of Concord.