CLINT ENNS - CockFighter

Paper: Hahnemühle Fine Art Archival Print
Sheet size: 40 × 40 cm with 1 cm white border around the motif.
Year: Edition of 2025
Edition: 5 + 1 AP
Signed, dated and with an edition number by the artist on a separate label.

Clint Enns – CockFighter

A grotesque hybrid: half human, half rooster, muscular yet ragged, sits next to a real fighting cock. The two figures vie with each other, the mutant's hand resting on the animal's neck like an ambivalent sign of affection or violence. The scene acts like a bizarre mirror—the human as animal, the animal as the mirror of the human.

Clint Enns' CockFighter references the archaic ritual of cockfighting, a symbol of masculinity, aggression, and the display of strength. But here, the spectacle is perverted: the fighter is himself a rooster, his body marked by imperfection and exaggeration, his humanity deformed.

The work confronts us with the question of where the boundary between humans and animals lies—or whether this boundary has long since become obsolete. It is an image of power and powerlessness that simultaneously repulses and fascinates: a parody of a battle that can never be won.