Madame Margherite, Fetish Specialist and Animal Play Monarch..., saying, 2019
Magnetic letters, magnets, aluminum sheet, 69 x 51 x 29 cm / ´Let´s not..´
Madame Margherite is one of the most exclusive dominatrixes working in the field of Animal Play worldwide. She is the initiator of the first annual Animal International Title for Pet & Animal Players at DomCon LA 2020, furthermore, she is socio-politically active through her lifestyle as a dominatrix, as a fetish specialist and her self-proclaimed title as an Animal Play Monarch. For Madame Margherite, Animal Play also includes the analysis and inclusion of the social environment, of the social life and the characteristics and intellect of her clients, i.e. her pets. She has developed an identification procedure that helps her and her new pets to define and discover their future species identity that she categorizes into the following 16 groups: Sea Creature, Insect, Pre-Historic, Mythical, Bird, Marsupial, Rodent, Reptile & Amphibian, Bovine & Ungulate, Ursidae, Feline, Canine, Suidae, Equidae, Mammalia, Primates. To Madame Margherite, Animal Play means: “The art of transforming a Person from Human to Beast in an attempt to bring out the glorious inner creatures of our character, free of social etiquette and unnatural courtesies ...".
The form of the banner, reproduced here in aluminium sheet metal, comes from the painting 'The Feast of St. Gregory the Great', 1572, by Paolo Veronese. Instead of the original inscription from the painting 'PAX VOBIS' ('Peace be with you') as a 'symbol of the oral word', it bears colorful magnetic letters that read 'Don't apologize correct your behaviour'.
These are Madame Margerite's words taken from her Animal Play.
Thanking and honoring you, Madame Margherite!
Photo: Tamara Lorenz, Selma Gültoprak
Installation view: Martinetz