Anabelle Doliner, American
Hog Hallway, 2022
This image is of a hog farm in rural Iowa. Doliner frames the pig cages over a symmetrical line, with metal bars emphasizing the factory aspect of this type of farm. Feed comes from metal boxes and for the entirety of the farm there is a single fan. The floor is grated for waste to drop into an industrial tank. Organic shapes exist solely in the pigs, the only natural or living element. The monochrome beige colors show how bleak the industry is. It shows how we have reshaped nature for our own consumption. This exploitation is ugly and sad. Label by Lucas Theobald