A crocodile basks between cardboard boxes, a lion stretches its snout in the air from under a tablecloth while an African ostrich stands under a lucky star. Italian photographer Louis De Belle visited a private cabinet of curiosities where he documented a bizarre array of hunting trophies, haphazardly combined in all possible manners in the apartment of a Milanese collector. However he decided not to rearrange the animals, but to work with the situation he found and to interpret them as “Failed dioramas”.
The series was exhibited as a photographic installation: an assemblage of cardboard boxes of different sizes and heights, on top of which the prints were laid under glass. On the occasion of the solo exhibition Failed Dioramas at Tieranatomisches Theater der Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, curated by Felix Sattler, a catalogue was released in a numbered and signed edition. It is printed on a 100% recyclable kraft paper, resembling the cardboard boxes of the installation.
Design
Lukas Beck
Artist
Louis De Belle
Publisher
Lucia Verlag