Butterflown of love
Fernando Palma Rodríguez
7 August - 26 October 2008
Venue: Heide III: Kerry Gardner & Andrew Myer Project Gallery
Tocihuapapalutzin (Our Lady Butterfly)
work in progress
electronic hardware, microcontrollers, software, aluminium, soft drink can and beer containers, soil and wood
205.0 x 205.0 x 80.0 cm
© Fernando Palma Rodríguez
Created for the Kerry Gardner & Andrew Myer Project Gallery, Butterflown of love is international artist-in-residence Fernando Palma Rodríguez’s offering to the landscape.
Inspired by his three-month residency at Heide, this installation addresses the artist’s concern for the preservation of Nahuatl, an indigenous language of his native Mexico. Redolent with personal and historic cultural meaning for Palma Rodríguez, this interactive work brings objects to life with a range of intriguing narratives.
Click here to read about Palma Rodríguez’s residency at Heide.
Click here to read the blog he wrote during his residency at Heide and visit to Australia.
Click here to listen to a podcast of Rachel Bongiorno interviewing Fernando Palma Rodríguez for SBS World View, Wednesday 30 July 2008.
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