The Wild Table of Love
Temporary Exhibition (March 2026 - March 2027)
140 Broadway, New York, 10017
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One of the most intimate and universal acts shared by humanity is also the simplest: sitting down together and sharing a meal. Across cultures, generations, and cities, the table is where care is expressed, stories are shared, and community is built.
This spring, internationally celebrated artists Gillie and Marc transform this timeless ritual into a profound public art experience in the heart of Lower Manhattan. Installed at 140 Broadway, the monumental bronze sculpture invites the public to take part in what the artists describe as the best banquet in the world.
Stretching six metres long, the sculptural table is richly detailed and generously set, already alive with presence and possibility. At its centre sit Rabbitwoman and Dogman—Gillie and Marc’s iconic hybrid characters, beloved around the world for their messages of love, acceptance, and adventure. Acting as hosts, they welcome ten of the world’s most endangered animals to the table, offering them a place of honour, care, and belonging.
The scene is joyful—but its message is urgent.
The world is currently experiencing its sixth mass extinction. Countless species are being pushed toward extinction, largely due to human activity. In response, Gillie and Marc have created a sculpture that does not depict loss, but solidarity. By opening their table to endangered animals, Rabbitwoman and Dogman symbolically promise protection, support, and shared responsibility—inviting humanity to do the same.
Expertly crafted in bronze and conceived as a fully interactive public artwork, the sculpture does more than invite people to look—it asks the world to take a seat. In the middle of Lower Manhattan, Gillie and Marc are extending an open invitation to humanity itself: to sit at the table with the animals we have pushed to the edge, to acknowledge our shared responsibility, and to imagine a different future together.
This is not a symbolic gesture observed from a distance. By physically sitting alongside endangered animals, visitors are placed directly inside the narrative. The act is simple, but its meaning is profound. To sit is to slow down. To sit is to listen. To sit is to recognise that the fate of these animals is inseparable from our own.
In one of the world’s most influential cities, at a time when environmental urgency is impossible to ignore, the sculpture transforms a familiar human ritual into a global call to action. It asks a question that resonates far beyond New York City: Who is welcome at our table—and who are we willing to protect?
By bringing this invitation into the public realm, Gillie and Marc turn art into a shared civic experience—one that reaches commuters, families, tourists, and passersby alike. Every person who takes a seat becomes part of a collective moment of empathy and awareness, contributing to a living, evolving statement about care, responsibility, and coexistence.
In asking the world to sit together, this sculpture does not offer answers—it offers connection. And in that shared space, it reminds us that change begins not with grand gestures, but with the decision to make room for others, and to act with compassion before it is too late.
