This project is a collaboration with Edinburgh based artist John Brazenall. It was born out of a desire to respond to one of the numerous traditional animal shelters around Evoramonte, Portugal. During our time there we referred to this particular shelter as 'the dancehall' due to its imposing size and characteristics.
The work evolved through numerous discussions and chance encounters with available materials on the farms in the area.
There are subtle references to the trees of the surrounding landscape made visible in the movement of the work in the ever present wind as well as a comment on carefully staged and displayed works within museums and how this process of careful preservation is moved from the ridiculous to the sublime in this particular context where everyday objects and simple functional items are elevated to pieces of intense interest and transformed into valuable commodities.
