Between Benches — Branches brings together installation, lyrical storytelling and field study -birdwatching. The theme connecting these strands is the exploration of fragility, memory and adaptation in relation to environment and perception. Artworks function as vessels for memory and recollection. Drawing on observations of avian behaviour, the project employs lyrical and speculative storytelling to reflect upon contemporary social conditions, positioning birds as both counterparts and mirrors of human experience. Together, these elements generate an environment in which the viewer becomes a performer, while simultaneously receiving an invitation to contemplation.
Absurd as the numbness and contradictions of contemporary life so often fosters, this allegorical world brings together nature, culture, and myth continuously reconfigured through environmental and technological change. Within this landscape, the fragile illusion of human dominance over nature is revealed alongside the displacement of avian species. The work exposes tensions between individual selfcare and responsibility to collective living, bringing up some ethical dilemmas we are facing.
Through iterative reading, deconstruction and reassembly, texts take shape as brief encounters between scientific observation and parable. Accessible and occasionally humorous language aims to establish connections across diverse audiences.
As this means, the exhibition is not solely anthropocentric; it seeks to address issues affecting avian species. City birds are also part of the audience, as this exhibition is also partly thanks to them! It situates itself at the intersection of ecology and anthropocentric systems, challenging notions of consumption and control while negotiating the contradictions inherent in human engagement with the material and conceptual world. It highlights these struggling avian species and advocates for awareness and empathy towards them. By embracing vulnerability and partial surrender, it seeks to create a liminal space where human and avian forms converge.
