(from the series KILL ME PLEASE!), 2024
iron, recycled beaver fur
89 x 61 x 22 cm
Transcription from the audio guide written by Alina Kleytman:
They didn’t leave in time.
They didn’t bow.
Didn’t clap in rhythm.
They are not an accident.
They are a warning.
And if you listen closely—very closely,
with your ear pressed against the fur—
you can hear:
“…objection sustained… please… please… kill us…”
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.