Luna Konings in When the animals still spoke
The graduation work of
The exhibition 'When the Animals Still Spoke' explores the wondrous world of storytelling as a source of inspiration for contemporary artists. With references to allegorical and animistic stories, you are invited to the intersection of history, fiction, and potential future, to rediscover our relationship with more-than-human life and myth.
Luna about about her graduation work 'A Wild Encounter'
In the installation A Wild Encounter, I reflect on the recent reappearance of the wolf in the Netherlands through venturing on a fictional conversation between the Wolf and Pan.
The work consists of archival footage of wolves captured by wildlife cameras in De Veluwe, an animation of Pan, a scripted dialogue, and a bundle of essays reflecting on the wolf, the wild, and the role of mythmaking and animation.
Through this project, I seek to move beyond the human-centred and polarised discourse surrounding the wolf's return. Instead, I approach it through the lens of the fictional and the more-than-human, using storytelling to reframe how we relate to the animal, the landscape, and the idea of wilderness.
