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Inflatable Humans And Rabbits Art By Amanda Parer
Inflatable Art By Artist Amanda Parer Featured On Diabolical Rabbit.
Australian artist Amanda Parer’s edgy and ephemeral artworks explore the natural world, its fragility, and our role within it. San Franciscans may remember Intrude, her collection of gigantic rabbits, which invaded Civic Center Plaza in 2016.
For Inflatable, Parer Studio will install two human figures from a larger piece called Fantastic Planet. Inspired by the 1973 animated classic of the same title, it depicts immense but benign humanoids from an alien planet, beginning to inspect humans and our environment. The piece encourages us to reconsider both our own size, and our outsized impact on the natural world.
Photo: Parer Studio
The Bigger Version Of The Installation Piece Called Fantastic Planet
Six giant illuminated humanoid figures will invade the planet this year. These giants from afar will give audiences the impression that they have just landed and are quietly and gently exploring our ‘fantastic planet’. As with Parer’s globally successful public art exhibit Intrude, these forms will not be randomly placed sculptures but can be rather strategically placed to give the impression that the giant humanoids have taken over entire event site.
Inspiration for this light installation has been taken from the 1973 Czech/ French film Fantastic Planet (French: La Planète sauvage, pictured right). This stop motion science fiction film directed by René Laloux depicted a story set in an unimaginably distant future in a world of gargantuan humanoids and where human beings are a feral race, pictured below This view is shared by naturalist and television presenter David Attenborough, where he has stated that humans are threatening their own existence and that of other species by using up the world’s resources. “We are a plague on the Earth. It’s not just climate change; it’s sheer space, places to grow food for this enormous horde. Either we limit our growth or the natural world will do it for us,” he told the BBC Radio Times.
INTRUDE INSTALLATION
Some very large inflatable white rabbits, illuminated in stark white light, have been invading festivals around the world. The bunnies of Intrude stand tall yet relaxed at 7m high and appear to be quite at home in their new patch.
Why rabbits?
Rabbits in artist Amanda Parer’s native Australia are an out of control pest, leaving a trail of ecological destruction wherever they go and defying attempts at eradication. First introduced by white settlers in 1788 they have caused a great imbalance to the countries endemic species. The rabbit also is an animal of contradiction.
They represent the fairytale animals from our childhood – a furry innocence, frolicking through idyllic fields. Intrude deliberately evokes this cutesy image, and a strong visual humour, to lure you into the artwork only to reveal the more serious environmental messages in the work. They are huge, the size referencing “the elephant in the room”, the problem, like our environmental impact, big but easily ignored.
Dates
FLINT HILLS FAMILY FESTIVAL
INTRUDE @ MALLPLAZA, SANTIAGO CHILE
INTRUDE @ NIGHTS ON CROWN, WOLLONGONG AUSTRALIA
