(from the series KILL ME PLEASE!), 2024
iron, velvet, recycled beaver fur
53 x 110 x 80 cm
Transcription from the audio guide written by Alina Kleytman:
The former elbow of a lawyer.
Too honest, too principled…
Now—just a furry fragment with protruding steel arguments and ripped velvet eloquence.
Still moving…
Twitching at the tips of the arguments.
He didn’t finish his sentence…
Description/commentary
In the series KILL ME PLEASE!, Alina Kleytman stages a grotesque masquerade of decadence and decay. The sculptural ensemble—writhing forms of iron cloaked in velvet and reclaimed beaver fur—suggests creatures caught mid-contortion, elegant and suffering. Their fleshy silhouettes and wiry appendages point to a hybrid of animal, object, and ornament, caught in an eternal pose of discomfort. KILL ME PLEASE! is both a plea and a performance: theatrical, absurd, and tragic. Kleytman’s hybrid bodies embody the contradictions of pleasure and pain, seduction and surrender, exploitation and excess. These are not passive objects, but witnesses—begging to be seen, touched, consumed, and ultimately destroyed.