keine weiteren tiere zu sehen (archive notes), video stills. 11:16 min.

Zoos are places of longing, nostalgia—and a systematised hierarchy. How does our fascination with observing animals fit in with a sense of “caring”?

Within a 3-channel video installation sensational view, tired screams (2025) examines zoos as ambivalent places between supposed care and the exercise of power, which defines the relationship between us humans and animals. The video installation shows scenes from Barcelona Zoo, from the perspective of a human and the formerly famous gorilla „Snowflake“.

The video work exposes centuries-old, colonial hierarchies and the sensationalism
that shapes our vision. The zoo becomes a mirror of social power relations between inside and outside, control and longing are inextricably linked here. As a consequence we have to ask ourselves, what and why we preserve or forget—always with a focus on the perception of the unconscious.

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