MACELLAIO
2024
Wrought iron, beech wood, mirror, 60 × 60 × 33 cm
MACELLAIO is a silent witness. An early twentieth-century butcher knife is engraved with a poem I wrote. Used to break lives and dismember meat, its blade bears the mark of violence on innocent bodies.
How many lives have you cut? I ask the blade.
It was your master's hands that slaughtered those bodies. Even the butcher must know his guilt. The words engraved onto you reveal your crimes.
Photos by Alessandro Macciardi
Featured in the exhibition NO FUTURE
