Spread across three interconnected rooms, this installation brings together documents, photographs, and objects accumulated through years of living with Beuys, the artist’s African Grey parrot. Veterinary papers, import permits, ownership records, microchip certificates, and bureaucratic classifications sit alongside toys, food packaging, medical supplies, feathers, and worn household traces. Together, they form a material record of a life lived in constant negotiation with both affection and regulation.

Viewed collectively, these items reveal the systems that structure Beuys’s existence: care, attention, and companionship, as well as legality, surveillance, risk, and the continuous economic labour required to keep a nonhuman body safe within human infrastructures. Each document demands proof of species, of ownership, of health, while each object points to the ongoing, often invisible work of sustaining her daily life.

The rooms do not form a tidy archive. Instead, they expose how living with another species generates layers of evidence shaped by intimacy, bureaucracy, and the broader political and economic conditions that continue to treat her as a regulated “pet,” despite her presence in the work as an autonomous being. Visitors move through this fragmented arrangement as active readers of an entangled life — one in which every object marks both a shared domestic world and the systems that attempt to define, regulate, and contain it.