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Artists engage with nature in diverse ways and for various reasons, with some urging people to pay attention to the environmental consequences of human activity on the planet, and others making no particular point about environmental degradation or the connections between humans and non-humans but letting the artwork speak for itself.

Annette Messager’s installationBoarders At Rest Revisited (2008), which consists of little live rabbits in individual coffins made of cardboard boxes, is a great example of an artwork that uses animals not to make a statement about the protection and conservation of nature, but as metaphors for the human condition, helping us discover some interesting facts about our relationship with nature. It is based on an earlier work by Messager that was also titled Boarders at Rest (1971-72), although it used not rabbits but birds, and the birds were not alive but dead.

Dressed in hand-knitted jackets of various colours, the dead sparrows were laid on a white cotton sheet and displayed inside a glass vitrine.

From an ethical point of view, Messager’s work does not involve killing or harming the birds in any way. The little sparrows were already dead when she found them in the street and took them home.

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