Exhibition
Annie Rapstoff, Monika Tobel & Cally Trench: In The Likeness of Birds
4 Jul 2023 – 22 Jul 2023
Regular hours
- Monday
- Closed
- Tuesday
- 10:00 – 16:00
- Wednesday
- 10:00 – 16:00
- Thursday
- 10:00 – 16:00
- Friday
- 10:00 – 16:00
- Saturday
- 12:00 – 16:00
- Sunday
- Closed
Free admission
Address
- South Parade
- Summertown
- Oxford
England - OX2 7JN
- United Kingdom
Travel Information
- 10 mins by bus from central Oxford; 15 mins on bike
Human beings treat birds as other: strange winged descendants of dinosaurs to be hunted or exploited for eggs, feathers, meat, or companionship. But we also envy birds their power of flight, their freedom of the air.
About
What is it like to be a pigeon, or to wear a beak, or to watch your arms change into wings? Visitors are invited to join these three artists in celebrating the autonomous existence of birds and, through acts of imagination, break through the barriers that separate us from them.
Monika Tobel campaigns in the guise of a bird for fairness for pigeons, and offers herself as a human bird table for them to feed at.
Annie Rapstoff sews beaks or wears feathers, creating a hybrid bird-human form; the masks become a form of concealment, inducing a freedom to be other than self, and a channel to reveal or shift into another identity, exploring the im/possibility of a halfway existence between human and bird.
Through drawings and film, Cally Trench observes objectively her own ageing body mid-transformation as she metamorphosises into a bird.
The exhibition includes films, photographs, drawings, prints, objects, and an original board game.
