Library for the birds 2012

Context, was set to co-incide with the residency of Mark Dion. The work, Bird for the Library, while responding playfully to Dion’s work Library or the Birds of Antwerp (1993) also gave the an opportunity to test ideas about curating and displaying a single species, bringing a number of issues about R-A-T to the fore. Corbus alba was presented as a specimen through historical, ideomatic and zoological lenses
For Context. Curated by Fabian Saptouw. Michaelis Galleries. February 2012.
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