I WAS MADE FOR LOVING YOU

Night Trade welcomes the cartoonish menace of Saedog—readymade for your enjoyment.

On the corner of Little Collins and The Capitol, lives a dog. A Saedog. Encased in bouncy latex. Trapped behind glass. A new best friend, alive with wobbling paws, pleading eyes, and a drooping pink tongue. Made for loving you.

Saedog is the creation of Saeborg—a Tokyo-based artist who is half human, half toy. An imperfect cyborg who makes giant inflatable costumes as extensions of their own skin. The costumes allow Saeborg to escape feminine stereotypes projected onto their own body and exist in seemingly tranquil new forms. They exist in bright meadows populated by large toy-like creatures. Tamed beasts transcend fixed identities and warp realities of coexistence. They’re fun. But, on second look, they’re unsettling. Like you’ve awoken in a Playmobil pecking order. A place where the servile, often industrialised “roles” are literally inflated. Where the artificial boundaries separating man and woman, human and non-human, watcher and watched are looped and glitching.