April Gertler
Still Life, Copenhagen #8
48 x 39 cms
C-Print printed on alu-dibond
Still Life, Copenhagen #8, is part of the series If Only which is an examination of the way birds are represented in the simulated worlds of the natural history museum.This body of work is a result of photographing bird dioramas within European and American natural history museums.
If Only challenges the viewer’s notion of traditional nature photography. By reframing the dioramas within the frame of the camera, and thereby walking a thin line between reality and fiction, April Gertler is interested in how the fabricated environments are viewed as ‘still’ moments of a bird’s life while in their ‘natural’ habitat. Invariably the viewer connects with the animal and their habitat in each photograph, before realizing the fabrication of their environment.The photographs attempt to hold onto the integrity of the animal’s original life and their (constructed) habitat by not referencing the structure of the diorama itself, yet at the same time there is an impossibility to each image that fictionalizes the images themselves.
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