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Caterpillar

By Charlie Barlow 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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