EFWiL - An Evening with the Talbot Rice Gallery: The Animal Husband / Candice Lin

Join the Edinburgh Foundation for Women in Law at the Talbot Rice Gallery for a private tour of Candice Lin’s The Animal Husband. The tour will be followed by a reception at Edinburgh Law School. 

About The Animal Husband

In her first solo exhibition in Scotland, Candice Lin brings together new and existing work to play with the University of Edinburgh’s former Natural History Museum as a site of corrupted encounters, transgressions and transformations. Queering human and animal relationships, Lin uses a vocabulary of crude, ambiguous and dreamlike imagery to expose the conceits surrounding the scientific categorisation and control of bodies, and its links to the construction of race, gender, animality and humanness. 

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About Candice Lin

Candice Lin (b. 1979, Concord, Massachusetts) is an award-winning artist who works in Los Angeles, California. She had recent solo exhibitions at Spike Island, Bristol; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; Kunsthalle Osnabrück, Germany; Louisiana State University Museum of Art, New Orleans; Pitzer Galleries, Claremont, CA; Walter Phillips Gallery, Banff Art Center, Canada; Ludlow 38, New York; Francois Ghebaly, Los Angeles, (all 2019) as well as the exhibition cycle A Hard White Body at Bétonsalon, Paris (2017); Portikus, Frankfurt; and the Logan Center for the Arts, University of Chicago (both 2018). Lin has been included in recent group exhibitions and biennials including 59th Venice Biennale and 14th Gwangju Biennale; Para Site, Hong Kong; Beirut Art Center (all 2019); the Taipei Fine Arts Museum; Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; Moderna Museet, Stockholm; the New Museum, New York, and Sculpture Center New York. 

Content Warnings

The Talbot Rice Gallery looks forward to welcoming you to The Animal Husband. They have shared their content warnings in advance of the visit (below). This is an immersive exhibition dealing with a lot of difficult histories and materials. In addition to the official warnings here they also want to highlight that the exhibition includes scents – with real wolf urine being part of the display. They describe this as a subtle farmyard smell but wanted to give you the full picture in advance of the visit. 

Adult content: Parts of this exhibition includes animated depictions and discussions of sexual interaction between humans and animals, and descriptions of sexual and racist violence. 

Flashing images: The central video includes flashing images and a rotating screen.

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