Walking around Patricia Piccinini’s Melbourne studio, we could be on a tour at the Natural History Museum. ‘And here we have a pollinator,’ says the artist, pointing out a long-limbed creature from whose body hangs a mane of thick hair. She stops at a bulbous flower, pausing for effect. ‘What’s growing in there? How does it reproduce itself?’
We stroll towards a naked orangutan, carrying her young.
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