La Specola, Florence. Zoological Museum, established in 1775. The video shows: The premises of the "catalogue" are the arrangements, the lighting and the fittings. The reflections of objects in glass become a leitmotif; from the "gaze" of stuffed animals meeting the gaze of the viewer to a final immersion in the anatomical wax collection, where man is shown in all his touching physicality in one formidable gesture.
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