“Gold Coins to the Headsmen” is reflecting on the relationship between the human and the animal. The projects unfolded from an encounter with a herd of rams, raised for their meat. This confrontation led to intensive collaboration and choreography between the artist and these animals. Through the act of blindfolding of both of the co-actors, the human and the animal, the artist examines our position of simultaneously producers and products, as well as being victims generated by the capitalist and the anthropocentric systems, through which we all ultimately end up killing and cannibalizing ourselves.

The title “Gold Coins to the Headsmen” reflects old custom, in which the ones to be executed were advised to bribe the headsman (executioner) in order to ensure that he would sharpen his tools, especially if the execution involved decapitation.

Courtesy of the artist and Lumen Travo Gallery