Die Biester - In the photo book "Die Biester", Goddard depicts the urban space, increasingly dominated by real estate speculation and regulatory control, as an ironically distorted and modeled dystopian microcosm, in which nature is relegated to niches and only those who adapt best to changing environmental conditions survive.
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\nBritish artist Patrick Goddard has been an observer of urban space for many years. In his work, he explores the ever-increasing urbanisation of the late post-industrial and capitalist world. Using the human-animal relationship, the end of wilderness and the question of what it means to live in an increasingly artificial and commercialised environment, he addresses the consequences of the destruction of natural habitats in the advancing Anthropocene. With a combination of dark humour and an aesthetic of irreverence, the artist speculatively reflects on future, perhaps post-human, forms of life. Goddard is represented by Seventeen Gallery in London.
