Aperto Raum presents Political Animals by Alina Bliumis, her first solo exhibition in Germany. The title of the exhibition references Aristotle’s term in his politics. “However, instead of meaning, as Aristotle did, that we build society by practicing good social relations in organized establishments called cities (polis), Bliumis mockingly takes this expression at face value through a comic, yet productive form of literal mistranslation by focusing the use of birds, bears, and so forth, in political theater. Regardless of biology,…