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The works by British artist Irena Posner (b. 1988) enter the realm of allegory, playfulness and humour to explore power structures through animal discourses, selective breeding and fetish.

Posner’s trio of marble sculptures presented in the new exhibition Best in Show takes domestication and the implicit compromise of freedoms for comfort as a central theme while strongly referencing the literary work of Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, and Donna Haraway and Michail Bulgakov (Heart of a Dog).

With a retrospective view on the portrayal of domestic animals in marble sculpture, there has been a …