Sacrificial Tiger

A lone tiger, striding through the jungle, through dark foliage and heavy fog. Both hunter and hunted, the beast must be careful. Yet anger is filling the air, the beast is ready to ravage, ready to attack, ready to die, ready to be a martyr. The tiger is on the hunt with burning vengeance sitting on its back. The tiger is on the hunt with the intention to kill. For this year's Angewandte Festival, a single artist is taking over the whole of the Graphics and Printmaking studio, showing many artworks of their wide-ranging oeuvre. In their solo show “Sacrificial Tiger”, Rath adresses extremely contemporary topics and gives the audience extensive food for thought. Rath, born 1998 in Paris, is a presence in the class since 2019. They convey highly political messages through bold and colorful imagery, critiquing societal conditions through a naive lens. With imagery of animals, words or ornaments both symbolic and literal, these calls for change speak directly to the spectators, moving them to think about their own actions, as well as those of society on a wider scale.