The Pet Show #22 王翰林 Wang Hanlin

series Animal Capital, 2020 © Wang Hanlin

王翰林

生于1993年，中国

自从人类将狼豢养成狗，人类社会结构中逐渐多出一个新的角色：宠物。动物被驯化作为人类的生产工具或食物，并在漫长的时间里逐渐成为人类的附属品。而现代化的都市生活将人与宠物从这种传统的饲养关系中抽离出来，被驯化的宠物的功用性变得越来越弱，现代人与宠物的关系也在发生新的变化。马克思曾强调研究事物关系应从其本质着手，通过“宠物”作为切入点，可以更好的参透人类的社会结构。宠物已然成为一种不可忽视的社会结构而存在，宠物行为和人类行为在这其中互相影响、互相博弈。

通过表现当下人与“宠物”的亲密关系，由此延伸出现代家庭关系和现代人的消费的态度，并最终通过“宠物”来映照我们自身。拍摄素材来自北京，上海，武汉，大庆。

戴眼镜打领带的狗，来自《动物资本论》系列，2020年 © 王翰林

新疆朋友的斗牛犬，来自《动物资本论》系列，2020年 © 王翰林

Wang Hanlin

B. 1993, China

Since man domesticated the wolves into dogs, a new role has gradually emerged in human social structure: pets. Animals have been domesticated as human production tools or food, and gradually become human appendages in a long time.

The modern urban life separates people and pets from this traditional relationship, and the function of domesticated pets is becoming weaker and weaker, and the relationship between modern people and pets is also undergoing new changes. Marx once stressed that the study of the relationship between things should start from its essence, through "pets" as a starting point, we can better understand the social structure of human beings. Pets have become a social structure that can not be ignored. Pet behavior and human behavior interact and game each other.

Through the expression of the intimate relationship between people and "pets", this paper extends the generation family relationship and modern people's consumption attitude, and finally reflects ourselves through "pets”. The shooting materials are from Beijing, Shanghai, Wuhan, Nanjing and Daqing.