Caterpillar
By <a href="https://axisweb.org/artist/charliebarlow"
title="Charlie Barlow"
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Charlie Barlow
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2024 - 2025
Performance | Cable ties, hessian, hula hoops, flower basket, fencing | Tomar, Portugal Photo: Alex O'Donovan
A fantastical caterpillar writhes, contracts and rears upright, sleeping between states with potential to metamorphose. Thousands of cable ties transform into a freight-born creature of plastic horror, exploring notions of invasion, containment and otherness.
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