Private Choice 2023. Photo: Theo Baulig
The World Cages series consists of five paintings created as a commission for the Private Choice 2023 exhibition. Abandoned children’s beds and cradles salvaged from the street serve as supports for screen prints on cotton canvas. Gold-plated, their slats and frames turn these objects into gilded cages sheltering images of endangered birds.
The work carries a critique of the mass construction of mansions and buildings, like the one hosting it, and of a bourgeoisie that, at the expense of global biodiversity, shuts itself away in gilded cages.
Technical details
Title World Cages (Les Cages Monde)
Year 2023
Medium Screen print on cotton canvas, gold-plated slats and children’s cradles, oil paint, gold and copper protective varnish, wood
Set Five paintings
Context Commission for the Private Choice 2023 exhibition
Photos Theo Baulig
The five paintings
Private Choice 2023. Photo: Theo Baulig
Private Choice 2023. Photo: Theo Baulig