An exhibition of Belin's tiny cows, made with hardening clay and a lot of recycled materials. Essentially small, whereas his scenographies can be imposing. He creates thousands of cows, all the white ones are called "Marguerite", two-legged, half-legged, standing, alone, in groups, at ground level or on stilts, with a goat's head, possibly a pig's, in the open in their meadow or crammed into overcrowded pens. His artistic work may seem playful, but it is anything but meaningless. It's militant: it alerts, it denounces, it shows the failings of agro-industry and a farming world that is dying.
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