Looks Good | All Cannibals?

Dana Schutz, Self Eater 3 (detail), 2003. ©Dana Schutz & Florence et Phillipe Segalot, New York.

Currently on view at the Me Collectors Room in Berlin, All Cannibals? explores anthropophagy in art. ArtForum reviewer David McKay had this to say about the show:

"This group exhibition opens with a provocative quotation from Claude Lévi-Strauss: “The simplest way to identify with someone is to eat him.” One hundred works by forty artists are gathered here, and all examine the phenomenon of cannibalism, but without necessarily descending into cruelty or sensationalism. Instead, curator Jeanette Zwingenberger has sought out breadth and nuance, broadening the theme of cannibalism to include ritual and psychological forms. The real question seems to be, Where is our own inner cannibal hiding?"

Contemporary objects (including the painting pictured here by Dana Schutz) are shown alongside historical etchings and books, ethnographic photographs, cult objects, and more.

Suggested reading: Justin E.H. Smith, "The Raw and the Cooked: An Interview with Cătălin Avramescu," Cabinet (Fall 2010). Avramescu authored An Intellectual History of Cannibalism.