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ORNITHOLOGIE

Madi Acharya-Baskerville

Sonia Boué

ORNITHOLOGIE is an online collaborative exhibition by Sonia Boué and Madi Acharya-Baskerville who share adjacent studios spaces at Magdalen Road Studios, Oxford. Both artists use objects and share a reference to nature in their work. Sonia Boué has recently made photocollages with intricate structure of branches as a backdrop. Sometimes she appears intertwined with them as if she is part of their structure but also separate from them. For Madi Acharya-Baskerville, branch-like structures form part of her sculptural works, which reference the human body and sometimes take on an animal-like presence. Textiles such as embroidered fabrics handed down from her family are also incorporated into these works creating a more personal connection.

A colourful sculpture made from wood and embroidered fabric which looks like a bird, facing a monochrome photo-collage of a white woman’s head and shoulders and the body of a bird. The woman is wearing a long false nose.

A colourful sculpture made from a plastic bottle and textiles which looks like a bird with a shiny bead for an eye, facing a colourful photo-collage of a white woman wearing beak-like false nose and a monochrome bird sitting on a branch.

A colourful sculpture made from plastic bottles and textiles which looks like a bird, facing a photo-collage of a white woman wearing a long false nose and bird wings covering her face.

A monochrome photo-collage of the head and shoulders of a white woman wearing long false nose with the body of a bird, facing a colourful sculpture, which looks like a bird, made from and orange plastic ball, plastic bottles and textiles.

A colourful photo-collage of a white woman wearing a beak-like false nose with Ann illustration of a bird attached to her jawline, facing a colourful sculpture made from wood, textiles and a plastic bottle, which looks like a bird.

A monochrome photo-collage of the head and shoulders of a white woman wearing a beak-like nose among some branches. She has the body of a bird and is facing a colourful sculpture made from wood and textiles, beads and plastic bottles.

Information on pairings

MA (Madi Acharya-Baskerville)

SB (Sonia Boué)

Left:

In memory of an injured blackbird (MA)

Mixed media sculpture

H30 W22 D28 (cm)

Right:

Sometimes you lose (SB)

Digital collage

Left:

His heart is in the jungle (MA)

Mixed media sculpture

H45 W19 D15 (cm)

Right:

Passenger Pigeon (SB)

Digital collage

Left:

Here to stay (MA)

Mixed media sculpture

H22 W22 D13 (cm)

Right:

A day like any other (SB)

Analogue collage

W17 H10.5 (cm)

Left:

Without title or words (SB)

Digital collage

Right:

My life as a bird (MA)

Mixed media collage

H30.5 W26 D19 (cm)

Left:

With Greetings (SB)

Analogue collage

W14 H10.5 (cm)

Right:

Vessel Robes (MA)

Mixed media collage

H21 W20 D15 (cm)

Left:

I wish (SB)

Digital collage

Right:

A shell of the future (MA)

Mixed media collage

H17.5 W11 D14.5 (cm)

Press

madiacharya-baskerville.org

Madi Acharya-Baskerville on Instagram

soniaboue.co.uk

Sonia Boué on Instagram