Native Animals

A multicharacter 8channel film sits in the centre of the exhibition Each character from a porcine unionjack doting politician to a phoneaddicted white cat stand in as an archetype in the UKs political landscape as it considers its exit from the European Union Set apart on independent monitors these anthropomorphized incarnations menace one another through tacit acts of ridicule in a perpetually cycling theatre falling between farcical and cruel Maclean points us to the mechanisms of belonging and nativeness at play in the performance of national identity