The exhibition Old Sinne / Reneweth Shame is focused on the interpretation of various animal rights activists groups, based on analysis of their existing campaigns and events. Taking into account a wide range of identities and directions of selected groups, artists attempt to supply definitions for the notoriously slippery terms of uncharismatic species, women, and monstrosity and suggest connections among all three that make them useful and lively means of inquiry. At Piktogram Daniela & Linda Dostálková providing a limited arena for expressing fantasies of domination, or inversion. Key element of monster’s power is its ability both to attract and repel. Artists attribute the cultural fascination with the monster to the twin desire, which is difficult to apprehend and to domesticate. The cute versus wild paradox is illustrating the human experience of nature in contemporary society. Uncharismatic species as monsters notoriously appears at times of crisis as a kind of the third term that problematizes the clash of extremes.

… and whan he cam there he fond a doore of yron thikk & strong … and whan he perceyued the doore of yron he toke hys swerd, that was hard & tempered with fyn stele, and with the poynte of it dyde so moche that he perced the door, and made a holl in it, and loked in at that holl, and sawe …, 2019, print on glossy paper, dimensions variable

Exiled Queens, 2019, video installation, 5’10”– loop, wood, acrylic resin, acrylic paint, dimensions variable

Exiled Queens, 2019, video installation, 5’10”– loop, wood, acrylic resin, acrylic paint, dimensions variable

Exiled Queens, 2019, video installation, 5’10”– loop, wood, acrylic resin, acrylic paint, dimensions variable

sche were oute of hir mynd / and torned in another kynde, 2019, print on glossy paper, 100 x 150 cm
with open hed and fot al bare / so blynd ye are by her, 2019, print on glossy paper, 100 x 150 cm

her courage dwells not in a troubl’d flood / of mounting spirits, and fermenting blood, print on glossy paper, 70 x 90 cm

her courage dwells not in a troubl’d flood / of mounting spirits, and fermenting blood, print on glossy paper, 70 x 90 cm

… and whan he cam there he fond a doore of yron thikk & strong … and whan he perceyued the doore of yron he toke hys swerd, that was hard & tempered with fyn stele, and with the poynte of it dyde so moche that he perced the door, and made a holl in it, and loked in at that holl, and sawe …, 2019, print on glossy paper, dimensions variable