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Abbas Akhavan, Fatigues, 2014, taxidermy animals, dimensions variable. Installation view, L’avenir, La Biennale de Montréal 2014, Musée d’art contemporain, Montreal, Canada
Abbas Akhavan, Fatigues, 2014, taxidermy animals, dimensions variable. Installation view, L’avenir, La Biennale de Montréal 2014, Musée d’art contemporain, Montreal, Canada
Abbas Akhavan, Fatigues, 2014, taxidermy animals, dimensions variable. Installation view, L’avenir, La Biennale de Montréal 2014, Musée d’art contemporain, Montreal, Canada
Abbas Akhavan, Fatigues, 2014, taxidermy animals, dimensions variable. Installation view, L’avenir, La Biennale de Montréal 2014, Musée d’art contemporain, Montreal, Canada
Abbas Akhavan, Fatigues, 2014, taxidermy animals, dimensions variable. Installation view, L’avenir, La Biennale de Montréal 2014, Musée d’art contemporain, Montreal, Canada
Abbas Akhavan, Fatigues, 2014, taxidermy animals, dimensions variable. Installation view, L’avenir, La Biennale de Montréal 2014, Musée d’art contemporain, Montreal, Canada
Abbas Akhavan, Fatigues, 2014, taxidermy animals, dimensions variable. Installation view, L’avenir, La Biennale de Montréal 2014, Musée d’art contemporain, Montreal, Canada
Abbas Akhavan, Fatigues, 2014, taxidermy animals, dimensions variable. Installation view, L’avenir, La Biennale de Montréal 2014, Musée d’art contemporain, Montreal, Canada
Abbas Akhavan, Fatigues, 2014, taxidermy animals, dimensions variable. Installation view, L’avenir, La Biennale de Montréal 2014, Musée d’art contemporain, Montreal, Canada
Abbas Akhavan, Fatigues, 2014, taxidermy animals, dimensions variable. Installation view, L’avenir, La Biennale de Montréal 2014, Musée d’art contemporain, Montreal, Canada
Abbas Akhavan, Fatigues, 2014, taxidermy animals, dimensions variable. Installation view, L’avenir, La Biennale de Montréal 2014, Musée d’art contemporain, Montreal, Canada
Abbas Akhavan, Fatigues, 2014, taxidermy animals, dimensions variable. Installation view, L’avenir, La Biennale de Montréal 2014, Musée d’art contemporain, Montreal, Canada
Abbas Akhavan, Fatigues, 2014, taxidermy animals, dimensions variable. Installation view, L’avenir, La Biennale de Montréal 2014, Musée d’art contemporain, Montreal, Canada
Abbas Akhavan, Fatigues, 2014, taxidermy animals, dimensions variable. Installation view, L’avenir, La Biennale de Montréal 2014, Musée d’art contemporain, Montreal, Canada
Abbas Akhavan, Fatigues, 2014, taxidermy animals, dimensions variable. Installation view, L’avenir, La Biennale de Montréal 2014, Musée d’art contemporain, Montreal, Canada
Abbas Akhavan, Fatigues, 2014, taxidermy animals, dimensions variable. Installation view, L’avenir, La Biennale de Montréal 2014, Musée d’art contemporain, Montreal, Canada
Abbas Akhavan, Fatigues, 2014, taxidermy animals, dimensions variable. Installation view, L’avenir, La Biennale de Montréal 2014, Musée d’art contemporain, Montreal, Canada
Abbas Akhavan, Fatigues, 2014, taxidermy animals, dimensions variable. Installation view, L’avenir, La Biennale de Montréal 2014, Musée d’art contemporain, Montreal, Canada
Abbas Akhavan, Fatigues, 2014, taxidermy animals, dimensions variable. Installation view, L’avenir, La Biennale de Montréal 2014, Musée d’art contemporain, Montreal, Canada
Abbas Akhavan, Fatigues, 2014, taxidermy animals, dimensions variable. Installation view, L’avenir, La Biennale de Montréal 2014, Musée d’art contemporain, Montreal, Canada
Abbas Akhavan, Fatigues, 2017, taxidermy animal (red fox), 5 x 22 x 16 in. (13 x 55 x 40 cm). Installation view, Museum Villa Stuck, Munich, Germany, 2017
Abbas Akhavan, Fatigues, 2017, taxidermy animal (red fox), 5 x 22 x 16 in. (13 x 55 x 40 cm). Installation view, Museum Villa Stuck, Munich, Germany, 2017
Abbas Akhavan, Fatigues, 2017, taxidermy animal (red fox), 5 x 22 x 16 in. (13 x 55 x 40 cm). Installation view, Museum Villa Stuck, Munich, Germany, 2017

This body of work, shown unauthored, is purposefully installed in poorly lit corners and other peripheral spaces of the museum without labels or didactic panels. The animals in the installation were not sourced from the fur trade nor were they trapped as game. The mammals died of natural causes or in car accidents and all of the birds died in collisions with buildings.

Abbas Akhavan, Fatigues, 2014, taxidermy animals, dimensions variable