20 aprile 2024 - 24 novembre 2024
The giraffe Lenka was captured in Kenya in 1954 and carried to Prague Zoo, where she survived only two years in captivity. After her death, her body was donated to the National Museum of Prague to be exhibited as a mere museum artifact until 2000. Lenka’s sad story, linked to the history of Czechoslovakia’s acquisition of animals from the Global South in the 1950s., is reinterpreted by the artist through contemporary ecological and decolonial perspectives, building a space to imagine new ways of relating to nature and animals in particular.
