New Kinds of Words I

New Kinds of Words I, 2013

Vintage book titled 'Girls of the Forest', vintage recycled raccoon fur, bookbinding glue

With upcycled fur seeming to grow from lines of obscured text, New Kinds of Words I suggests that new modes of understanding, or new forms of language, may be necessary in a post-anthropocentric world—A world where we reject human exceptionalism and begin to understand our deep dependence on and interconnectedness with the others with which we share this Earth.

"Jenny Kendler presents a book with fur instead of text, and a nautilus shell growing hair — these forms seems to straddle animal and human worlds; their hybridity resists easy categorization. [...] The book offers an impenetrable line of reason, for its pages contain an unrecognizable, though nevertheless tactile language." - Caroline Picard, Curator of Projections Animalières