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Cauldron of sleeping bats
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Kay Fourie
Exhibition:
2019 New Breed Winners Group Exhibition
Details:
Signed
Resin, gut, graphite powder
Price:
R850 each, R20 000 for all
Description:
This installation depicts a cauldron of bats in their resting mode: upside down and each wrapped and isolated inside its own wings, almost like people in lockdown. My curiosity about bats started a couple of years back, when I was working on a series of drawings involving wind and wind turbines. An environment fundi, who was doing impact studies for a wind farm, told me that birds die when they fly into the rotating blade of a turbine, but that bats suffer an altogether different fate: they do not have to collide with the blade, they only have to fly near enough to the turbine. Their lungs simply collapse from the vacuum caused by the rotating blades. This tiny piece of information touched me deeply, the mere fact that such a nifty little creature can be so vulnerable to our unstoppable technological progress. Bats have been seen as vermin, bloodsucking vampires and in folklore they are the aides of witches, but the best of all came when the new of Covid-19 broke: the rumour that a bat had caused this decease. In fact we, humankind, are the actual intruders, the colonisers.
Resin
Detail
Tags
Kay Fourie
Exhibition:
2019 New Breed Winners Group Exhibition
Details:
Signed
Resin, gut, graphite powder
Price:
R850 each, R20 000 for all
Description:
This installation depicts a cauldron of bats in their resting mode: upside down and each wrapped and isolated inside its own wings, almost like people in lockdown. My curiosity about bats started a couple of years back, when I was working on a series of drawings involving wind and wind turbines. An environment fundi, who was doing impact studies for a wind farm, told me that birds die when they fly into the rotating blade of a turbine, but that bats suffer an altogether different fate: they do not have to collide with the blade, they only have to fly near enough to the turbine. Their lungs simply collapse from the vacuum caused by the rotating blades. This tiny piece of information touched me deeply, the mere fact that such a nifty little creature can be so vulnerable to our unstoppable technological progress. Bats have been seen as vermin, bloodsucking vampires and in folklore they are the aides of witches, but the best of all came when the new of Covid-19 broke: the rumour that a bat had caused this decease. In fact we, humankind, are the actual intruders, the colonisers.
Resin