The chorus draw together the motifs of bird and clown, Neorealism and Etruscans. Toto’s avian profile embodies trickster figure and absurdist Commedia del’ Arte unhinged puppets.
Flocks migrating from Pasolini’s Uccellacci e Uccellini evoke a ridiculous spirit of the carnivalesque – ‘bringing together the sacred and the profane, the lofty with the low, the great with the insignificant, the wise with the stupid’
the chorus #16
2019–2020, clay and coloured slip, dimensions variable
the chorus #10
2019–2020, clay and coloured slip, dimensions variable
the chorus #8
2019–2020, clay and coloured slip, dimensions variable
the chorus #11
2019–2020, clay and coloured slip, dimensions variable
the chorus #14
2019–2020, clay and coloured slip, dimensions variable
the chorus #17
2019–2020, clay and coloured slip, dimensions variable
the chorus
2019–2020, clay and coloured slip, dimensions variable
the chorus
2019–2020, clay and coloured slip, dimensions variable
the chorus
2019–2020, clay and coloured slip, dimensions variable
the chorus
2019–2020, clay and coloured slip, dimensions variable
the chorus
2019–2020, clay and coloured slip, dimensions variable
the chorus
2019–2020, clay and coloured slip, dimensions variable
the chorus
2019–2020, clay and coloured slip, dimensions variable