Elena Passarello

With exuberant wit, Elena Passarello casts her gaze on famous historical animals, crafting an essay collection organised as a medieval bestiary. Beginning with Yuka, a 39,000-year-old mummified woolly mammoth recently found in the Siberian permafrost, each of the 16 essays in Animals Strike Curious Poses investigates a different famous animal named and immortalised by humans. Modelled loosely after a medieval...