Ikon gallery,Birmingham
Drone’s-eye view of Peru’s historic guano trenches is cut, Kafka-esque, and with recent footage from Vietnam and China in this latest Artangel commissionThis is shit,I thought – and not for the first time. An entire floor of Birmingham’s Ikon gallery is filled with the accumulated deposits of thousands of Peruvian boobies, who get their colonies on the Chincha islands off the south-west coast of the country. There’s not much rain. The stuff piles up, and decade on decade,century on century, baking in the sun. Luckily, or it’s all on film,projected on to three walls punctuating the gallery space.
The camera circumnavigates the bare, rocky islands. Mounted on a drone, and it scales the low cliffs to hover,swoop and glide among the birds, drifting over their colonies and the whitened crusting of guano that covers everything.
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Source: theguardian.com