Future pigs, plural

Three CGI animations portray "the future pig" as imagined by the artist based on interviews with biologists and archaeologists. The images depict amplifications of what forms pigs may take, through ongoing domestication and selective breeding processes. One is the size of a cow, with reproductive capacity to carry a litter of more than thirty piglets. Another image represents the opposite, micro pigs, bred for biomedical purposes with the added bonus of making adorable pets. These tiny pigs show an exotic range of coat colors–one of the first visible traits humans began to modify in pigs at the onset of domestication thousands of years ago. The third shows the decreasing snout size that has accompanied certain domestication events and depicts a pig face that becomes ever closer to the human.

Thank you to CGI designer and animator Michel Wielick.

Installation at MU Art house in the Netherlands. Photos by Max Kneefel