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Butterfly Smit and the service of what is dead
It is an orderly, clean space, not unsociable, despite the pieces of horse bone that dominate the studio in their showcases.

Visual artist Vlindertje Smit prepares animals and parts of animals. Thinking back to the publicity storm created by British artist Damien Hirst with his preserved-animal artworks, one might expect Butterfly Smit to seek sensation. It isn't. The careful and deliberate ma...

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Maarten Baanders

Free-lance arts journalist Leidsch Dagblad. Until June 2012 employee Marketing and PR at the LAKtheater in Leiden.View Author posts

Butterfly Smit and the service of what is dead
It is an orderly, clean space, not unsociable, despite the pieces of horse bone that dominate the studio in their showcases.

Visual artist Vlindertje Smit prepares animals and parts of animals. Thinking back to the publicity storm created by British artist Damien Hirst with his preserved-animal artworks, one might expect Butterfly Smit to seek sensation. It isn't. The careful and deliberate ma...

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