Chicken Poems is a new body of collaborative and parallel work by siblings Oscar and Sophie Bannan that includes collage, photography, video and sculpture.
Each work is conceived as a visual poem that explores radical intimacies with time, and the creation of meaning through image/object relationships. Thematically, their work explores rhythms of living such as cooking and food, domestic chores, personal ritual, familial and romantic relationships.
For the exhibition, Sophie and Oscar have made a moving image work using existing dance films made of and by the siblings over the past thirty years. The intention of the film is to enable a meeting a point between their collages and their preoccupation with the performing body.
Chicken Poems marks the launch of Gus Fisher Gallery’s new proposal driven space called The Changing Room. Intended as a project space for newly commissioned artwork, The Changing Room enables a dedicated solo space for Aotearoa-based practitioners.
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