Ashley Cook, from Runner Magazine -

"I love how art has the potential to prompt or sustain an infinite array of contemplations while also participating in a deep-rooted lineage of material and aesthetic discourse. Axel Livingston’s exhibition at The Barbershop satisfies an impulse to acknowledge the ongoing objectification and consumption of bodies through “ingredients” like gelatin, packaged egg, chicken feet, processed cheese and meat. Sculptural forms shrink-wrapped in plastic and cast in iron work with found objects and cryptic diagrams to solicit a feeling that may inspire veganism or a concern for civil rights. There is a thinned-out line between the concepts of 'human' and 'animal' here."