A young dead tit

In the photographic object (lightbox) A young dead tit I refer to the tradition of the seventeenth-century Dutch still life of the vanitas genre, in which all elements have a dual function: aesthetic, because they depict the beauty of the world, and moralizing, because they show vanity, nothingness and transience.

At the beginning of 2018, I had several months of consultations with an ornithologist specialising in, among others, the tit family. Through this contact I received a dead animal for taking photographs. I do not use laboratory focus - a dead bird lies on its side, its feathers are matted, it's a more romantic pose than vivisection. The tit was deformed by scaling its real size more than a hundred times. The eye is seduced by light, symbolism and imagination. However, no human view has anything to do with clear view, and perception is never transparent or objective. Citing the history of art, I treat my photographic object as a symbolic announcement of the inevitable twilight of the anthropocene.