
The Post-Natural History Museum
by Max Liboiron
The Post-Natural History Museum , 2005 Installation with cut outs, sharpie marker, minature dioramas, and pinhole photographs Lawrence Alloway Memorial Gallery, Stony Brook, NY. The Post-Natural History Museum is a critical installation concerning how nature is depicted in natural history dioramas. Pinhole photographs and miniature dioramas make up an alternative, more contemporary, version of “the natural;” they include factory farms, GMOs, mythical beasts, and ecological nightmare logic. The pinhole photographs are taken from The American Museum of Natural History in […]
Categories: Art • Tags: critique, dioramas, installation, museum of post-natural history, natural history, post-natural history