Mourning the Mounted: An Analysis of the Taxidermy Exhibition Dead Animals with a Story

Mourning the Mounted: An Analysis of the Taxidermy Exhibition Dead Animals with a Story

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This article analyzes the taxidermy exhibition Dead Animals with a Story Portable Sinks located in the Natural History Museum of Rotterdam in order to discover the subversive potentiality of taxidermy.Through granting the taxidermy animals subjectivity, by recognizing human and non-human kinship, and by creating accountability towards animal suffering, Dead Animals with a Story sets the stage for the animals to be deemed grievable.This points to the potential of the exhibition to reshape pre-established social and cultural boundaries Money Box between the human and the animal, which becomes ever so important in a world marked by extinction and loss.