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A site specific installation, a part of t Food Chain, the Ahuvi most promising artist award show, The Fresh Paint Art Fair, Curator: Tami Katz Frieman 2010- 2011,

Created after Rousseau's 1864 painting by that name. The painting endearingly depicts a bitch nursing her puppies while burrowing through a basket overflowing with plates and cutlery stained with food leftovers. In Alroy's sculptural version, all the scale systems seem to have gone awry to the point of total collapse: the puppy suckles from the porcelain nipple of a bitch whose head is stuck inside a cement bag lying in a deserted urban setting, and the food leftovers are replaced by the miniaturized traces of a city ostensibly culled and piled after some ecological catastrophe or destruction. The fact that the sculpture was created during the artist's pregnancy conceals additional meanings involving systems of control, containment and survival, mother-child relations, nourishment and compassion, and may allude to the physical, wild, and beastly aspects of woman-nature relations.

Tami Katz Frieman