ARIA DEAN Abattoir, U.S.A.!, 2023 “The reason I was interested in that idea is this sort of “sanctioning” of death, but also cordoning it off. It’s as if the slaughterhouse is this major conceptual pin in the development of modernity as we understand it. Especially aesthetically, it really shifts our understanding of what modernism is, if we put killing as a centerpiece.” A.D.