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Robin Rhode
Bird on Wires2012/2013

Not on view
Series of eight framed stencil-style prints arranged in two rows, showing a figure in an orange vest releasing a growing flock of birds over a barbed-wire wall in sequential stages
Color photograph of a person crouching against a white wall, wearing a black jacket and orange backpack, reaching toward a painted black-and-white bird perched above rows of rendered barbed wire lines spanning the wall's width.
Color photograph of street art on a white wall: a crouching figure in black clothing with an orange backpack reaches upward toward painted black-and-white birds above horizontal lines of painted barbed wire.
Color photograph of a person in black clothing and an orange backpack, crouching beside a white wall strung with barbed wire, one arm raised toward three black painted birds in flight above.
Color photograph of street art on a white wall: four black stenciled birds ascending in sequence above five horizontal strands of painted barbed wire, with a crouching figure in black clothing and an orange backpack reaching upward toward the lowest bird.
Color photograph of a person crouching in black clothing and an orange backpack, reaching up to touch a white wall painted with stenciled black birds in flight above five horizontal strands of barbed wire.
Color photograph of a person in dark clothing and orange backpack crouching beside a white wall painted with horizontal barbed wire lines and black stenciled birds in flight ascending in an arc above.
Color photograph of a white wall with painted barbed wire lines and stenciled black birds in flight arranged in an arc; a crouching figure in black clothing with an orange backpack reaches toward the wall at lower right.
Color photograph of street art on a white wall: seven black stenciled birds with dripping paint arc upward from horizontal barbed wire lines. A figure in dark clothing and an orange backpack crouches at lower right, arm raised toward the wire.

Robin Rhode, Bird on Wires, 2012/2013, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Purchased with funds provided by Contemporary Friends, 2014, photo © Museum Associates/LACMA

Artist or Maker
Robin Rhode
South Africa, Cape Town, born 1976, active Berlin
Title
Bird on Wires
Date Made
2012/2013
Medium
Dye coupler prints
Dimensions
a-h) Panel frame: 16 1/2 × 24 1/4 × 1 1/2 in. (41.91 × 61.6 × 3.81 cm) each a-h) Installation: 40 × 96 × 1 1/2 in. (101.6 × 243.84 × 3.81 cm)
Credit Line
Purchased with funds provided by Contemporary Friends, 2014
Accession Number
M.2015.27a-h
Classification
Photographs
Collecting Area
Contemporary Art
Selected Bibliography
  • Lawson, Dhyandra. Imagining Black Diasporas: 21st Century Art & Poetics. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2024.
Copyright
© Robin Rhode

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