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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.
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.