Secretarybird (Xray) © Helena Hunter 2019
Falling Birds will be exhibited at The Horniman Museum and Gardens from 19 Sept 2020. The display features artworks that blend larger-than-life X-ray images of extinct and endangered bird specimens from the Horniman’s Natural History collection with fragments of poetic text. The artworks open up questions about natural history, authorship, ethics and gesture towards hidden narratives that are materially entangled in the lives of birds. The artworks were developed during an Artquest research residency at the Museum.