Skinning

drone video, 3D animation, ceramics
2024

Oddkin, Skinning
Video excertp

Skinning is a research project and video work that takes the sudden collapse of the Dutch mink fur industry in 2020 as its starting point. When the government advanced the ban on mink fur farming due to COVID-19 outbreaks, 2.4 million minks were culled, and 150 million euros were allocated to compensate farmers for their lost business. This moment revealed a complex tension: the loss experienced by farmers and the celebration of an exploitative industry’s end.

We explore this tension through the story of a speculative mink farmer, born into a family business now made obsolete. Skinning looks at the skin—the body’s largest organ—as an archive of violence, a site of transformation. We ask how the farmer’s skin can become a cartography of the perpetrator, capable of change. In parallel, we see abandoned mink farms as wounds on the skin of the Earth. The speculative farmer exposes his skin as an offering, blurring the boundary between victim and perpetrator, harm and healing. Ultimately, both skins—human and non-human—carry the weight of trauma, yet both hold the potential for transformation.

Abandoned minkfarm in Melissant, Netherlands
Photo by Oddkin

Abandoned minkfarm in Nieuwerkerk, Netherlands

Photo by Oddkin

Abandoned minkfarm in ‎⁨Luyksgestel⁩, ⁨De Kempen⁩, ⁨Netherlands⁩

Photo by Oddkin

Five composition of 3D digital sculptures

Five ceramic sculpture series

Exhibited


TBA

Credits

Skinning, 2024
by Oddkin (Márton Kabai and Natela Lemondzhava)

Cast:
Written & directed by Oddkin

3D Graphics by Marton Kabai
Ceramic sculptures by Natela Lemondzhava
Sound editing by Natela Lemondzhava

Script editor - Yun Ingrid Lee

Drone Pilote - Boyd Rotgans/RNDR
Driver - Gabor Kerekes

Mr Horizont - Vincent t Sas
Child - Lukian Kolganov

Choir composition - Guilherme Fonseca