Cosima von Bonin brings fish to life in ‘WHAT IF THEY BARK?’ as fish wear theatrical costumes, play musical instruments, and hold checkered missiles. The hilarious reenactment of ancient Greek temple statues as sea creatures is playful and good for a laugh. Cosima von Bonin is a conceptual artist working across painting and sculpture. Von Bonin is a collector—of found objects, materials, images, stories, and references that she assembles with irreverence and dark humor. While in her early paintings the artist used found fabrics to compose scenes populated with beloved Looney Toons and Disney characters, in more recent sculpture installations she focuses on more generalized myths, historical figures, and pop culture references, from Pinocchio to Jacques Lacan. For many years, she created plush, colorful ocean creatures, a series of works that talks about the human destruction of the natural world found underwater.