Neotropical Migrants
2018 - 2024
Pencil, marker, and pen on recycled cardboard
Project carried out with the support of the Canada Council for the Arts
Today, as population movements are being more and more tightly controlled, migrating animals cross barriers that humans call borders, and Maria Ezcurra underlines the contradictions of mobility in contemporary geopolitics by raising her gaze to the sky. Marking out a huge field site for observation and documentation, she created an inventory of 154 species of neotropical migratory birds that land in Quebec, specifying how threatened by extinction each species is. Green dots indicate that the bird population is in good health; yellow dots mark a population under threat; and red dots signify in danger of extinction. On packing boxes, once used for the circulation of goods, she drew a specimen from each community that flies from one America to the other along choreographed migration routes and transmits its knowledge of the land over generations. She thus invites us to consider the complex interdependence between human and non-human migratons and the environment.
Marie-Eve Beaupré
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