What does it mean to be human? 'Becoming Animal' explores the existential nature of human experience through a rich survey of major modern and postmodern artworks in a visually and critically ambitious cross-section of twentieth- and twenty-first-century art. This investigation builds from a literary and philosophical framework that addresses the development of consciousness and self-awareness. Through a series of apparently irreconcilable artistically and politically divergent movements, empty transcendence is confronted by the enduring concepts of eternity and utopia. In particular, Symbolism and Minimalism are juxtaposed; art movements that shaped the nineteenth and twentieth centuries' exploration of the relationship between life and death, emptiness and meaning, with their specific artistic languages.0Featuring artists such as Carl Andre, Francisco de Goya, Albert Oehlen, Gardar Eide Einarsson and Matias Faldbakken, 'Becoming Animal' also includes essays from Giorgio Agamben, Michael Kjaer, Claus Carstensen, Anne Gregersen and Rosalind Krauss. 00Exhibition: Den Frie Centre of Contemporary Art, Copenhagen, Denmark (2018).