FEEDERS

RAQUEL ORMELLA

6pm Thursday 6th December 2012 - Saturday 2nd February 2013

CCAS Gorman

Feeders was developed during a studio residency in Tokyo in 2010. The work recreates two encounters during which wild birds took food from my hand. Rather than re-staging these events for camera, as in a nature documentary, I have chosen to make a work that takes a more subjective point of view. My intention was to recreate the excitement and immersion-in-the-moment that characterises an encounter with a wild creature. Using a video projection of the locations where each encounter took place, I reenact these moments with true-to-life paper bird models crafted from packaging I collected during my stay in Tokyo. (Ormella, 2012)

Image: Raquel Ormella, Feeders, 2010, Video still, 3x4 four channel, dimensions variable