All photos taken by Only K Photography for MollaSpace
MollaSpace is currently exhibiting The Nonlife Zoo original art at Royal/T, a unique gallery/cafe/shop in Culver City, CA. The exhibit is an imaginary visual of the planet, and is aiming to create awareness of animal preservation and improve social responsibility to the environment.
The exhibit is comprised of several different series with different concepts:
Birth: Small animal dolls, designed and hand-sewn by designers Cloud Lou and Owen Chuang, are pinned to the walls.
In Memory: A memorial park with over 500 small tombstones represents all the extinct animal species.
Equality: Human-sized animal dolls stand on their two feet.
Heroes: Ceramic animal heads memorialize animal “heroes” who have lost their lives to human causes.
Fashion: Animal dolls are adorned with [fake] human parts, such as teeth, nails, and hair.
Formosa: An exhibition dedicated to the designer’s hometown, an island that lost many of its rare animal species to industrialization.
“Each one of them have their own concepts and their own stories, but overall, the idea is that all the dolls are created standing in the human stance to say that they’re protesting humans affecting the earth, and to show their internal suffering,” said Jeff Liu, of Mollaspace. “Their faces are made up of skull faces and are cold and expressionless, which reflects the name of the exhibition, the Nonlife Zoo, which shows that in the future, if we’re not careful, [the animals] will not be alive.”
The exhibit will run until August 10th, at Royal/T and then will move onto Superfrog Gallery (New People) in San Francisco, from August 28th to September 10th.
Royal/T Café
8910 Washington Blvd.
Culver City, CA 90232
T 310 559 6300
Café: 10am – 5pm daily
Shop & Space: 10am – 6pm daily
A portion of the profits will be donated to the World Wildlife Fund.
