trussed

In this project, I explore appropriation as a bodily practice—how the desire to possess something rare, valuable, or «lucky» is actualized not through sight or purchase, but through direct physical interaction, resulting in the body becoming an object. The starting point is the figure of a rabbit, an animal that culture consumes entirely and without remainder: as fur, as dietary meat, and as a talisman whose body is disassembled into fragments. I examine superstition as a model of appropriation: luck is conceived as a quality that can be extracted from another’s body and carried away.