Pig! (2021 – 2023)

Nathalie Rey and Josechu Tercero’s Pig! critiques the role of current power structures and their capacity to seduce by exploring the tension between the beautiful and the unpleasant.

To children, pigs are often seen as endearing figures, forming a pleasant part of their collective imagination. For adults, however, they can be charged with more negative meanings, often referring to what is obscene, dirty, sexual, or excessive. Thus, in our culture, pigs are paradoxical creatures.

The “pigs” in this project adopt human practices: they sleep in beds, eat and drink sitting at the table, have romantic gestures, and succumb to the lust for power embedded in the canonical structures of human society that, as in Orwell’s novel, seem to ennoble animality while reproducing the same human obscenity.

Pigs can represent a reflection on the human condition, which deteriorates in its attempt to achieve more power, or maybe humanity is meditating on its own ‘cerity’. We do not know…

“The belly of a pig is capable of containing an entire social class”, said one of the protagonists of the film Porcile, and bourgeois morality is based on consumption and merchandise. This idea is manifested here in the use of toys, which instruct, from childhood, the alienation of consumption.

Text by Gabriela Bert (fragment)