Animality and Revenge: Looking for the Non-human in Art

Janis Rafa, who has an exhibition at Eye, in conversation with Filipa Ramos and Lisanne Wepler about the depiction of non-human life in art, from both a contemporary and art historical perspective. The program includes the screening of Rafa's video works The Space Between Your Tongue and Teeth (2023) and Lacerate (2020), as well as a Q&A with the artist.

Filipa Ramos is a writer and curator whose research focuses on how culture addresses ecology. She was the Director of the Contemporary Art Department for the city of Porto and the Curator of Art Basel Film. Her projects include The Shape of a Circle in the Mind of a Fish, the 8th Biennale Gherdëina and the 13th Shanghai Biennale. Ramos authored Lost and Found (Silvana Editoriale, 2009) and edited Animals (MIT Press, 2016).

Lisanne Wepler is the curator of 17th-century Dutch painting at the Rijksmuseum. She specialises in 17th and 18th-century paintings of nature and animals. She is also the author of Tierfabeln: Von Äsop bis la Fontaine in Gemäldeserien seit 1600 (Michael Imhof Verlag, 2021).