Etienne Chambaud, The Naked Parrot, 2013. Installation view. Courtesy the artist and Labor, Mexico City
Etienne Chambaud
The Naked Parrot
9 April – 1 June 2013
at Labor, Mexico City
The Naked Parrot, the first addressee of the eponymous exhibition at Labor, is a modern chimera, a being fully constructed from the outside. Here this construction is not based on mythological grounds or scales, but on the very process of creation of figures that we inherited from modern machines such as the zoo and the museum. Domestication and conservation are indeed stitching techniques that endlessly attempt to heal the wound of the cuts their very existences are based on. The Naked Parrot is thus an assemblage of exogenous intentions collapsing on their sutured understandings and misunderstandings: the idea of a human talking animal in a falling pigeonhole.
To be naked, to lay bare, the parrot had to be dressed up by this theater of the outside. What is laying bare if not precisely this deluded work: the private seriousness within the beaming positivity of deceit? — The only way to fabricate truth out of error. [read the full article here]
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Francisco RamÃrez #5 ,
Col. Daniel Garza,
Del. Miguel Hidalgo 11830,
México D.F.
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Etienne Chambaud, The Naked Parrot, 2013. Installation view. Courtesy the artist and Labor, Mexico City
Etienne Chambaud, The Naked Parrot, 2013. Installation view. Courtesy the artist and Labor, Mexico City
Etienne Chambaud, The Naked Parrot, 2013. Installation view. Courtesy the artist and Labor, Mexico City
Etienne Chambaud, The Naked Parrot, 2013. Installation view. Courtesy the artist and Labor, Mexico City