Maria Papadimitriou, AGRIMIKÁ, 2015, Video

This video is part of Maria Papadimitriou’s installation, Why Look at Animals? AGRIMIKÁ that presents the relationship of humans to animals and sparks series of concerns ranging from politics and history to economics and traditions, ethics and aesthetics, fear of the foreign and the incomprehensible, and our profound anthropocentrism that allows us to define ourselves as non- wild, different from all other animals.

The AGRIMIKÁ of Papadimitriou’s concern, along with the shop in Volos, are those animals that tenaciously resist domestication. They coexist with humans in a condition where the roles of prey and predator are constantly switching—but the human hunter usually prevails with the animal prey as a trophy. Nonetheless, these are the animals that feature in most foundational cosmologies and mythologies.