Simon Starling
“Inverted Retrograde Theme, USA (house for a songbird)”
2002
Starling, born 1967 is an English artist who works and lives in Berlin. Heartney suggests Starling “targets modernist design” as he refers to the failure of security and unconventional housing structure. As seen in “Inverted Retrograde Theme, USA (house for a songbird)” 2002, the two structures have been turned up-side down to reinforce the dysfunction of the design. The steel bars on the windows and doors suggest a lack of security and Starling has inserted live parakeets into the models “evoking the caged entrapment of its residents”.
http://www.frieze.com/issue/review/simon_starling1/
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