Photos of Federico Uribe and PUMA's Human Nature Installation by Derori Gila Loral

Things felt a bit like a Jan SvenkMayer film at the Chelsea Museum of Art, especially with unlimited tequila…

Then, after a few drinks we felt like we were in one of those cool stop-motion films that Canadians made in the 70's, or like that scene in “Friday” (or is it “Next Friday?”) where Ice Cube smokes a j and that lil' dog statue starts to look odd.

We gotta give it up to PUMA — a lot of shoe and apparel peeps try to align thremselves with gallery events, usually to mixed results, the kind which give pretentiousness a bad name. But this very simple recycling of sneaker parts into large playful animal …