Waiting for birds IX.

What is this huge aviary doing here? The fundamental role of an artwork is to pose questions and create situations. This mobile sculpture by Austrian artist Josef Bernhardt (b. 1960) offers us the opportunity to observe the world from a bird’s-eye view. Those who venture inside the installation will have a chance to understand what it is all about. What experience do we gain if we look out from inside the box through the hole where birds fly in, and let our unusual position have an impact on us? How do we perceive the world from this perspective?

“Entering the birdhouse may seem absurd at first”, the artist proposes, “but by placing ourselves into another identity, we can look beyond the familiar schemes of thinking, and may show greater sympathy for other forms of life, among others, for our feathered friends, with whom we share this city and this planet.”