A Starry-eyed Subspecies
A life-size post-horse sculpture traversing a mutated and poisoned landscape, part of Rajni Perera's Traveller series exploring diasporic identities and climate refugees.
One of the featured artworks is A Starry-eyed Subspecies, a major new sculptural work featuring a life-size Traveller and Post-Horse traversing a mutated and poisoned landscape left behind by greedy and wealthy corporate nations. The installation approaches the feeling of searching in a very particular sense, familiar to many, and is set in a mutated habitat produced by Birmingham artist Matt Gale.
The Traveller series reflects on immigrant cultures being stripped away and homogenized in nation-states and imagines off-worlding as a metaphor for immigrant resilience to retain cultures, survive, and thrive. As we begin to question abundance as a birthright for all, the glaring question becomes "at what cost? And to whom?" with the issues of hunger, thirst, pollution, and displacement becoming some of the most ignored yet prevalent issues faced by the majority of the human race.
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