Looks Like a Fish, Tastes Like a Lizard

May 03, 2018, updated Jun 05, 2025

Hugo Michel Gallery will tonight, Thursday, 3 May, celebrate the opening of Looks Like a Fish, Tastes Like a Lizard, an exhibition from Adelaide artist, Emmaline Zanelli, that “examines the research of prehistoric life performed by a domestic palaeontology enthusiast.”

Opening from 6pm, the work “depicts the effects that images have on our collective perception of nature, and the – at times ridiculous – human endeavour to understand and recreate it.”

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Also hosted by the gallery and opening Thursday night, is Lisa Roet’s Moment in time, consisting of sculptures inspired by bathing Japanese Macaques – the primates believed to have adopted the human behaviour of bathing in hot springs.

The sculptures “depict a glowing surface, achieved though a complex heating process, mimicking the effect that the hot springs have on the colour of the monkeys faces.”

For all your human and non-human curiosity, the exhibitions will run until Saturday, 2 June.

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