Annette Barcelo's exhibition "Bestie, Bellezze e altre Compagne" (Beasts, Beauties, and Other Companions) is on view at Haus für Kunst Uri in Altdorf, Switzerland. The show explores the creaturely as something emerging between bodies, images, and acts of imagination, where human, animal, mask, and ornament merge into hybrid figures that feel both familiar and elusive.
The exhibition matters because it continues Barcelo's investigation of the boundaries between species and representation, offering a timely meditation on how we imagine and relate to non-human life. By blurring distinctions between human and animal, real and imagined, the work challenges viewers to reconsider their own place within a more-than-human world, a theme of growing relevance in contemporary art and ecological discourse.