Exhibited at the TATE Britain.
My response was to the historic <Release of Pigeons on the Occasion of Picasso’s Ninetieth Birthday>, in which ninety multicolored pigeons were released from the hands of schoolchildren into the sky from the “splendidly prominent position” of the front steps of the TATE Britain’s main entrance.
I replicated ninety substrates from the TATE’s archive to release into the streets of London and beyond, from the steps of a laser-cut MDF staircase and bound in the powder blue cardstock, just as they are in the actual archive.
Who knows where they are all headed next? Who knows how far they will fly?
The title and creative direction for the exhibition were developed as a collective.
“Please be Cautious! Collaborative Ventures are Always Fraught with Problems!” is a wildly apt line from a correspondence found in the archives.
Posters were printed in A3 via risoprint, with gold ink, reminiscent of the tactile and aged quality of the substrates we interacted with.
Special thanks to Eilis Searson and Daniel Fitzsimmons for the curation.