Friday 20 March 2009



PIG 05049
Christien Meindertsma has spent the last three years researching all the products made from a single pig. Amongst some of the more unexpected resutlts were: Ammunition, medicine, photo paper, heart valves, brakes, chewing gum, porcelian, cosmetics, cigarettes, conditioner and even bio diesel.
Meindertsma makes the subject more approachable by reducing everything to the scale of one animal. After it's death, Pig number 05049 was shipped in parts throughout the world. some products remain close to their original form and function while others diverge dramatically. In an alsmost surgical way a pig is dissected in the pages of the book - resulting in a starteling photo book where all the products are shown at their true scale (1:1).

ISBN: 978-90-812413-1-1

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