BIANCA BONDI – MOTHS DRINK THE TEARS OF SLEEPING BIRDS
2019-07-15Bianca Bondi has chosen an enigmatic title, inspired by a scientific study that a particular moth’ species had developed the ability to drink the tears of sleeping birds1. If nothing in the show directly illustrates this surprising observation, the choice of words however illustrates Bianca Bondi’s impulse to enrich her work with natural sciences and stories as well as religious culture, esoteric or magical. The movement of the bird’s tears when ingested by the moth correspond to a recurring analogy in the artist’s works: the idea of passage, the mutation of matter and its circulation.
Opposite – Have you accepted Christ as your personal savior? I…, 2019
Exhibition runs through to July 27th, 2019
VNH Gallery
108 rue Vieille du Temple
75003 Paris
