24-hour performance in which Sven Sachsalber was locked in a room with a cow named Samsonie.
While getting the cow into the 4 x 4 meter room was not easy, getting it out again was far more difficult. In their time together, the animal developed what I would call an almost intimate relationship with Sven. Surprisingly, it was a very peaceful atmosphere, full of mutual affection.
The performance was documented in real time using a laptop video camera.
Sachsalber, Sven
Born in 1987 in South Tyrol, died 2020 in Vienna. He worked between New York und Europe. After graduating in business economics in Bologna, from 2010 to 2012 he studied sculpture at the Royal College of Art in London with Professor Richard Wentworth. In 2014 he was awarded the Premio New York by Italy’s Ministry of Culture and in 2019 the Paul Flora Prize. His works are held in Bolzano in the Museion’s collection and in the public collection of the Autonomous Province of Bolzano/Bozen – South Tyrol, as well as by private collections in Europe and in the USA.
