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                           TAXIS DERMA

The Modesty of Birds
​
 
Taxidermy – The art or profession of preparing animal carcasses, 
so that they retain,
as much as possible,
certain morphological characteristics that
present them as they were alive:

from Infopédia Portugues Language Dictionary [online]. 
Porto: Porto Editor, 2003-2019.
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National Museum of Natural History & Sciences, Lisbon (2019)
Taxis Derma II (2019) cut magazines, beeswax, polystyrene, acrylic filler, light, glass cabinet, 46 x 36 x 36 cm
Taxis Derma (2019) cut magazines, beeswax, polystyrene, acrylic filler, light, glass cabinet, 16 x 35 x 35 cm
National Museum of Natural History & Sciences, Lisbon (2019)
We ate the birds (2019) acrylic ink & collage on arches watercolour paper, 90cm x 280cm,

​The exhibition Taxis Derma by Nina Fraser is composed of paintings with collage from fashion magazine cuttings; 13 drawings and 2 paper sculptures. The artist intends in a subtle but provocative way to evoke the relationship between society and animals. Nina Fraser uses images of clothing as a symbolic material to cover the head and body of the birds, creating a discontinuous involvement of the viewer with the animal.

We are invited to reflect on the social values that remain inadequate in regards to the treatment of animals that are often used as mere commodities. The artist's work deals with the repositioning of the identity and the reassessment of these concepts based on 'fashion' as a pretext for her sometimes obsessive and bucolic creative act. The artistic path Nina Fraser has been forging is consistent with this purpose, where she has found a comfortable dimension.
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The dissolution of visual boundaries underlies the limits that separate traditionally distant areas of knowledge, art, science, technology, sociology, etc. Nina Fraser often uses concepts and methods that come from the use of the image, as well as the artist's exploration of the instinctive and fragile brush stroke using collages of fragments of images. “Today it has become commonplace to evoke the concept of an image culture, but this statement reflects the feeling that we all have to live in a world where images are not only proliferating but becoming increasingly varied and interchangeable. ”(Jacques Aumont: The Image)

It is in this paradox of mediation of images and their consumption, with the distancing, charm and fragility of drawing, that there is a kind of complicity between the observer and the object drawn, in this case birds, that the work in this exhibition sits.

Sofia Marçal - museum/exhibition curator
Featured in Bairro Das Artes 2019, & Noite Europeia dos Investigadores //
View featured paintings:
 Menagerie series // Limited Edition Prints
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​04 - 29th September 2019

National Museum of Natural History & Sciences
Rua de Escola Politécnica 56, 1250-102, Lisbon
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  • Work
    • 2025 >
      • Perception / finding ground
    • 2024 >
      • Deliquesce
      • Vegetal matters
    • 2023 >
      • mycelium
      • a study in psycho-cybernetics
      • CALENDÁRIO AVULSO
      • Winter leaves
      • Unconnected Yet
    • 2022 >
      • The Anxiety of Interdisciplinarity
      • Unconscionable map
      • uma nova poesia visual
      • AMETHYST DECEIVER
      • Moths drink the tears of sleeping birds
    • 2021 >
      • Home
      • tales of turbulence and tulips
      • Circle series
    • 2020 >
      • (E)arthly Delights
      • The Garden
      • Found Landscapes
    • 2019 >
      • Taxis Derma
      • Menagerie
      • QUAL Paisagem
      • Winter Sunrise
      • Sublime
      • The Centre Cannot Hold II
      • The Centre Cannot Hold
    • 2018 >
      • Caught up in the field
      • Disconnected Event
      • FLYGA FLADDRA
      • Consequential
    • 2017 >
      • Shop Magazine
      • [framing illusive]
      • ROCKS
      • Bag Forest
    • > 2016 >
      • what might have been simply displaced
      • CHAOS &INFUSION
      • (un)form
      • Fragments
    • Drawing >
      • for the time being
      • Still, time
      • BODY & PLACE
      • Expanded Landscape
      • Islands
      • Abstract Markings
    • Print >
      • Menagerie
  • Info
    • Bio
    • CV
    • Texts >
      • Undomesticated Ground (text)
      • A Study in Psycho-cybernetics?
      • Home (text)
      • Learning from the bricoleur in times of crisis
      • Taxis Derma (text)
      • Sublime (text)
  • News
  • Artist Mentoring
  • Contact