Neon Parc is pleased to present ‘Birds’, a two-person exhibition at Neon Parc City of new work by Aotearoa-based artists Rea Burton and Meg Porteous.
In ‘Birds’, Burton and Porteous use the city pigeon, which congregate outside the window of their shared studio, as a subject and muse for the exhibition.
For ‘Birds’, Burton presents a suite of figurative prop paintings that include zoomorphic portraits rendered in a mixture of paint and pigeon excrement. Porteous presents a series of formal pigeon portraits which are cropped and enlarged, resembling a series of actors’ headshots.
Burton and Porteous presents these two bodies of work alongside a new, collaborative short film titled ‘Nancy Treadler’ (2022), in which they position themselves as directors, casting pigeons and friends as talent, in a theatrical mimicry of the art world the artists occupy.
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