HUN
by Julia Mejnertsen
HUN is an answer to my mother, as she once said that hunting your first animal feels the same as giving birth to your first child. HUN is a family project dealing with the complex and invisible bond we build with our family. HUN understands the family as a cosmology, which means everything that is alive that surrounds us. What happens when one of these elements ceases to exist? What happens when a plant or an animal stop breathing?
Combining drawings, illustrations, text, video, objects and photographs HUN tells a story about the West’s culturally conditioned view of nature and our relationship to life, death, and interpersonal relationships, drawing parallels between the passion for hunting, for nature and for photography. To achieve a wider connection with nature, and perhaps with each other; it may mean getting close to things that make us uncomfortable, both with ourselves and others.
HUN is the feminine pronoun in Danish, but it’s more than that. HUN also refers to the English word ”hunter”, in addition to symbolizing connections between woman, mother, daughter, the matriarch of a herd of elephants and Mother Nature.
