Incorruptible Fawn

This artwork featured in House of Beasts (2012). A Meadow Arts commission. 

Fawn references the state known as incorruptibility- a spiritually pure being whose body does not decompose. Henry Krokatsis has cast a dead fawn in an ultra high-quality supple non bio-degradable silicone. This material (used in implants) is calculated to resist degradation for over a thousand years.

This work draws attention to the common occurrence of still-birth in deer herds, an event which mostly goes unnoticed as the dead foetuses generally disappear in a matter of days.

Images: Henry Krokatsis, Incorruptible Fawn, installation view, House of Beasts, Attingham Park, 2012. Image courtesy of Meadow Arts.

 

About the artist

Henry Krokatsis

Henry Krokatsis exhibited in House of Beasts, Attingham Park, 2012, and Give Me Shelter, Attingham Park, 2009, both commissioned by Meadow Arts.

Image: Henry Krokatsis, Incorruptible Fawn, installation view, House of Beasts, Attingham Park, 2012. Image courtesy Meadow Arts.