{"id":8608,"date":"2019-08-27T19:01:08","date_gmt":"2019-08-27T23:01:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/?p=8608"},"modified":"2019-08-27T19:01:08","modified_gmt":"2019-08-27T23:01:08","slug":"taxis-derma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/content\/collage-exhibitions\/taxis-derma\/","title":{"rendered":"Taxis Derma"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Kingfisher II<\/em> by Nina Fraser
collage. Courtesy of the artist.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Nina Fraser: Taxis Derma
at the Museu Nacional de Hist\u00f3ria Natural in Lisbon, Portugal
3-29 September 2019<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Animals are always observed. The fact that they can observe us has lost all significance. They are the objects of our ever-extending knowledge. What we know about them is an index of our power, and thus an index of what separates us from them. The more we know, the further away they are.” <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Combining painted depictions of birds with\ncollaged fragments of magazines, the series of bird portraits presented in this\nexhibition explore the relationship between man and animal in contemporary consumer\nculture. Using cloth as a symbolic material to drape, decorate and cloak the\nhead and body of the animal, the viewers connection with the subjects gaze is\ninterrupted. Utilising photographic imagery from fashion magazines, a lived moment\nof a body imprinted in the contours of the fabric  confronts the interstices between different\nsets of the visible.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Considering the exhibitions proximity to  the taxidermy collection, presentation methods associated with the\nmuseum are referenced and if applicable adopted. Taxidermy preservation gives\nthe animal a presence that is difficult to ignore. One enters the room and is\ndirected, through display cases and lighting, to detail that would be difficult\nor impossible to see in nature. The animal is poised, as if aware of the\nviewers gaze. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The technical definition of the word\ntaxidermy means to arrange a skin, deriving from the Greek roots taxis (arrangement<\/em>) and derma (skin<\/em>). Collage as arrangement <\/em>maintains a careful process of elimination, selection,\ncollecting, cataloguing and chance. Working with the contours of the skin or\nthe cut of the photographic material, both art forms are urging life into the\nsubject. The act of collage is to re-align the unexpected, and redistribute consumer\nsocieties debris. Taxidermy can also be seen as a form of recycling. The transformation of value and property takes place through the applied\nreconstruction of the artists eye.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

From the idealised glamour preserved in a\nfashion photograph to the specimen in the cabinet, nothing has been left to\ndecay, to age, to complete its cycle. Forcing the outside indoors, into our\nhomes and onto our bodies, we look through the lens of captivation, consumption\nand conquest. Birds are arguably the greatest symbolic references to freedom\nthat we have, crossing linguistic and territorial boundaries, yet the birds in\nthe exhibition cannot fly, and cannot see. It has taken less than two centuries\nto replace animals with machines and expel them from our society. We are asked\nto question our own outdated value system relating to animal as a commodity or\nas a companion, and perhaps to examine our role as an individual and as a\ncollective identity within in society.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

…Therein lies the ultimate consequence of their marginalisation. That look between animal and man, which may have played a crucial role in the development of human society, and with which, in any case, all men had always lived until less than a century ago,\u00a0 has been extinguished. Looking at each animal… the visitor is alone.” <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Both quotes are from John Berger, Why Look at Animals?<\/em> (1977)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

(adapted from the artist’s press materials)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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INFORMATION<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Museu Nacional de Hist\u00f3ria Natural<\/strong>
Rua da Escola Polit\u00e9cnica 56\/58
1250-102 Lisbon, Portugal
+ 351 213 921 808 <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hours:<\/strong>
Tuesday-Friday, 10AM-5PM
Saturday-Sunday, 11AM-6PM<\/p>\n\n\n\n

MAP<\/a> | WEBSITE<\/a>\u00a0| FACEBOOK<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Nina Fraser: Taxis Dermaat the Museu Nacional de Hist\u00f3ria Natural in Lisbon, Portugal3-29 September 2019 Animals are always observed. The fact that they can observe us has lost all significance. They are the objects of our ever-extending knowledge. What we…<\/p>\n

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