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Axel Straschnoy (born 1978) is a visual artist and filmmaker from Buenos Aires, based in Helsinki. His work deals with the social practices surrounding objects of knowledge.
The Permian Projects are two research projects on the natural history collection at the Perm Regional Museum (Perm Kray, Russia). Their backdrop is the End-Permian Extinction (the biggest extinction ever to take place on Earth). The projects reflect on the Museum of Natural History and on the ongoing extinction process. They consist of a collection of the insects exterminated as part of the museum’s conservation efforts and of a series of dioramas on the taxidermied animals in its collection.
“Straschnoy’s projects – The Permian Collection and Dioramas – […] deconstruct the very idea of museumification, which embodies the dichotomy between life and death.”
Katarina Lopatkina, Time Bubble
Bombus has published a book on The Permian Collection, including all 33 colour plates and featuring texts by Yuliya Glazyrina—Head of the Natural History Department of Perm Regional Museum—, Larisa Zhuzhgova —Head of Natural History Collections at Perm Regional Museum— and Katarina Lopatkina—Curator and Art Historian.