However Incongruous is a life-sized fibreglass rendition of Albrecht Dürer’s Rhinoceros, a woodcut by the German painter and printmaker made in 1515, around the height of exotic animal trading. Dürer created the woodcut to mark the arrival of an Indian rhinoceros named Ganda to Lisbon, an important event as no other had been seen in Europe for over 100 years.

Ganda was as a gift for King Manuel I of Portugal, and spent several months in the city, before being offered to Pope Leo Xth as a diplomatic offering. Sadly the rhinoceros, far from his its native habitat in Gujarat, and where today no rhinoceroses remain, was lost at sea. Dürer’s impression of the animal, was created without ever having seen a rhinoceros himself, taking information only from descriptions from others. Raqs Media Collective have reimagined Dürer’s elaborate creature as a carousel animal, the title reinforcing its lack of harmony with its surroundings.