Animal Gaze
“On the Sixth Day”, Alessandra Sanguinetti looks at the world from an animal’s perspective, in rural Argentina. A new edition of the startling book, first published in 2005.
The camera is low, animals are seen from the perspective of other animals. Life phases of cows, pigs, ducks, lambs and chicken run through the photos, conveyed by a surreal gaze that most adults have lost.
Human beings are guests in the natural world, but their presence comes in heavily. They handle, cage, kill, use and dispose of animal bodies. An unfiltered view of death goes hand in hand with a poetic tale about rural life, and nature’s wisdom.
