Major and Minor Questions
(The Killing of a CEO)
2025
Toy mechatronics and plush lamb-sized (95 × 45 × 25 cm)
The plush plays excerpts from court records and a manifesto attributed to Luigi Mangione.
Video documentation:
All animals play (...) Even ants, writes David Graeber in What's the Point If We Can't Have Fun?, pointing to a society in which play is regarded as irrelevant compared to the paradigms of reproduction, competition, and growth. Yet we first encounter the world through play; childhood means play while rehearsing morality. Adulthood is the moment when learned morality and lived reality can diverge. Childhood does not disappear; its moral framework persists in a world where violence, power, and institutions follow different rules. Major and Minor Questions is a fable scenography in which the instability of order is performed. Parallel animal scenographies stage documentary texts on murder, war, and power through mechanical plush protagonists. For fables have taught one simple lesson: power prevails regardless of argument, logic, or innocence. The wolf devours the lamb, even after the lamb has proven its case. Toy mechanisms, readymades, and referential objects are wrapped in textiles and reassembled. Mechanical plush animals distributed throughout the residency voice different documentary texts. Visitors move between overlapping scenes that never resolve into a single narrative. Documents, archives, and institutions are translated back into the logics of childhood. The project builds on a previously developed technical system, first realised in Major and Minor Questions (The Killing of a CEO), in which a robotic plush lamb speaks excerpts from court records and a manifesto attributed to Luigi Mangione.