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Faux Fur, Stainless Steel, Cables, Aluminium, Polyethylene, PVC, PLA-CF, Polyester, Steel Hardware, Servo Motors, Choreography (16 minutes)

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200 x 200 x 60 cm 

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2024​​​

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Docking Station suspends artificial tails in an in-between state: severed yet plugged in, detached yet made to perform. Their choreography moves through fragile expressions with programmed precision.

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The practice of severing a dog’s tail, historically known as "docking", reveals the complex relationship between companionship, service, and obedience within the human-canine bond.

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Once justified as a functional procedure meant to protect working dogs from injury, and still performed in some breeds for aesthetic preference, tail docking removes one of the animal’s primary limbs of expression, marking the creature as a tool of labor rather than a companion.

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