Claire Morgan transforms ephemeral materials from nature into poetic yet slightly uncanny installations. For the installation in Zurich, the artist has assembled a fragile mobile consisting of countless dried leaves and taxidermied birds. Against all reason and laws of gravity we are able to follow the traces of the flight of the birds suspended in midair and fixated in an exact and geometric spatial drawing. The flow of natural movements seems to be frozen in time. The cycle of life has come to an abrupt halt as we find ourselves confronted with ambivalent emotions: are we in a dream where the passing of time has been momentarily suspended, or is it rather a nightmare depicting the ultimate control of mankind over nature? |
